wow

(wou) Informal.
interj.
Used to express wonder, amazement, or great pleasure.

n.
An outstanding success.

tr.v., wowed, wow·ing, wows.
To have a strong, usually pleasurable effect on: a performance that wowed the audience.


wow² (wou)
n.
Slow variation in the pitch of a sound reproduction resulting from variations in the speed of the recording or reproducing equipment.

[Imitative.]

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• Approval, Respect, and Recognition - wow: (vb) elicit enthusiastic approval or delight from

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noun

A dazzling, often sudden instance of success: hit, sleeper. Informal smash, smash hit, ten-strike. Slang boff, boffo, boffola. See thrive/fail/exist.

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noun

1: A sensational success. (1920 —) .
V. Connaught From that moment forward, she was a wow with every Australian in the land (1962). adjective

2: Exciting or expressing admiration and delight. (1921 —) .
John O' London's A chorus of wow reviews from international critics (1962). verb trans.

3: To impress or excite greatly. (1924 —) .
Daily Telegraph Mr Macdonald, who supplied the off-screen commentary for this year's Channel 4 coverage of the SDP conference, had the bright notion of training up a novice speaker who would wow them at Buxton (1984).

[From wow int, expressing surprise, admiration, etc.; orig Scottish.]

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The best rhymes for "wow" are the words closest to it in the list. The farther away the word from "wow", the less close the rhyme.

wow rhymes with:

• allow, avow, Bilbao, Bissau, bough, bow, bow-wow, brow, cacao, chow, ciao, cow, dhow, Dow, endow, Foochow, Frau, Hangzhou, Hough, how, Howe, kowtow, Lao, Liao, Macao, Macau, miaow, Mindanao, mow, now, ow, Palau, plough (US plow), pow, prow, row, scow, Slough, sough, sow, Tao, thou, vow, wow, Yangshao

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
int. - wauw!, orv!
n. - stor succes, knaldsucces
v. tr. - begejstre

2.
n. - wauw; lydfejl

Nederlands (Dutch)
goh!

Français (French)
1.
int. - hou la (excl)
n. - succès, (Audio) pleurage
v. tr. - emballer (qn)

2.
n. - (Phon) variation lente dans la reproduction d'un son

Deutsch (German)
1.
int. - oha
n. - sensationeller Erfolg
v. - beeindrucken

2.
n. - Jaulen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κάτι συναρπαστικό ή διασκεδαστικό, μεγάλη ή εντυπωσιακή επιτυχία
v. - κάνω ζωηρότατη εντύπωση
int. - πω πω!

Italiano (Italian)
successo clamoroso, entusiasmare, Oh!

Português (Portuguese)
n. - grande sucesso (m)
v. - causar uma ótima impressão
int. - expressa algo agradável (uau!)

Русский (Russian)
нечто из ряда вон выходящее или забавное, шумный успех, лай, громкое мяуканье, приводить в восторг, здорово!, блеск!, какая гадость!, безобразие!, лаять, громко мяукать

Español (Spanish)
1.
int. - uau!
n. - exitazo, éxito notable
v. tr. - embelesar, cautivar, conquistar

2.
n. - ululación (del sonido reproducido)

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - braksuccé (sl.), svajning
v. - svaja
int. - wow

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
叫声, 哄动一时的人物, 发出叫声, 恸哭, 呀, 哇

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 失真的聲音

2.
n. - 哄動一時的人事物
v. tr. - 使叫絕;博得...的稱讚
int. - 呀, 哇

한국어 (Korean)
1.
int. - 야아(놀라움과 기쁨의 함성)
n. - 대성공
v. tr. - 열광시키다, 대성공하다

2.
n. - 와우(재생 장치 소리의 눌어짐 등 피치의 주기변화)

日本語 (Japanese)
int. - わあ
n. - 大成功, ワウ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نجاح باهر, تفاوت بطيء من طبقه الصوت (فعل) يثير أعجاب السامعين (نداء) هتاف الابتهاج‏

עברית (Hebrew)
int. - ‮מילת קריאה המבטאת השתוממות או התפעלות, נפלא!, מצויין!‬
n. - ‮הצלחה כבירה, צלילים עולים ויורדים‬
v. tr. - ‮הרשים, ריגש מאד‬
n. - ‮צלילים עולים ויורדים באטיות‬

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