Meaning and background
The story behind Awesome
Awesome is a familiar English adjective, nowadays often used informally to mean excellent or great fun. It also has a stronger sense of inspiring amazement or even a little fear. Used as a dog name, it says more about an owner’s enthusiasm than about an animal’s behaviour. The word has two syllables in British English and is closely related in form to awe, though the two are not interchangeable in a sentence.
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About Awesome
Recorded as a dog’s name
Awesome appears in 4 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/ɑsəm/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
Other dictionary readings and notation
/ɑsəm/ · primary stress on syllable 1AA1 S AH0 M
/ɔsəm/ · primary stress on syllable 1AO1 S AH0 M
These are US dictionary readings. Personal, regional and other language pronunciations may differ.
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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