Socially aware and informed, especially regarding social justice issues; past tense of 'wake.'
As a political term, 'woke' comes from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) where 'stay woke' meant 'stay aware of oppression,' popularized around 2014.
The word 'woke' went from a genuine grassroots term for social awareness to a political insult in just a few years—it's a rare example of a word whose connotation completely reversed depending on who uses it.
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