ah

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Word Origin & History

mid-15c., an expression of surprise, delight, disgust or pain in nearly all Indo-European languages, but not found in Old English (where the equivalent expression was la!), so perhaps from Old French a "ah!, oh! woe!"

Example Sentences for ah

Ah, they are of their insignificance so loftily unconscious.

Ah, I remember the night I was converted, as if it were yesterday.

Ah, how much is done in the night when we sleep and know nothing!

It was a strange group in the gray of the new morning—ah, indeed, a new morning for them!

Ah, could I have descended, could I have come down, ere he fled!

Ah, by my finger bones, there is my sweet Mary from the Priory Mill!

Ah, church-going is impossible; the nearest is too far off.'

I see the vista of my future, and—ah, little book, my eyes are dazzled!

Yet—ah, the point is not important; the tradespeople should not have trusted you.

Aftervard, v'en beauty is common as ugliness is now—ah, I do not know.

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