Wow

Definition: Wow

Wow

Noun

1. A joke that seems extremely funny.

Verb

1. Impress greatly; "The speaker wowed the audience".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

WOW

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Wow

Crosswords: Wow

Wow, San Francisco (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders)

Wow. Well, what is (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

Wow, what a great ass. (Moonlight and Valentino; writing credit: Ellen Simon)

Wow, that's great (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke)

Wow! Brad, hi, you been holding this long (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;)

Big Bow Wow in your mouth (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

Wow (Venus; performing artist: Bananarama)

and I said wow! (Yes!; performing artist: Chad Brock)

Oh! WOW! (TRAVELIN' BAND; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Wow, oh wow, all night long (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat)

Take Me Like Wow (1974)

It's Cindy Wow (1971)

Wow (1970)

The Adventures of Pow Wow (1949)

His Marriage Wow (1925)

Bow Wow (That's My Name) (performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

Betcha By Golly Wow! (performing artist: Prince)

Betcha By Golly, Wow (performing artist: Stylistics)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Amazing Dad: More Than 400 Ways to Wow the Kids (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Wow Hits 2003 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• WOW Christmas: 30 Top Christian Artists and Holiday Songs (reference)

• WOW Hits 2002 (reference)

• Wow Hits 2003 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• WOW PS2 Wireless Adaptor (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Indian waves from horseback at a pow wow in Browning, MO. Credit: USDA.

Indian Pow Wow dancing in Browning, MO. Credit: USDA.

Indian mother and daughter in teepee during a pow wow in Browning, MO. . Credit: USDA.

Indian drummers at a pow wow in Browning, MO. Credit: USDA.

Indian dancers at a pow wow in Browning, MO. Credit: USDA.

Sherrie Petersen and Denise Meridith, Arizona State Director, greet WOW campers. The WOW program -- Wonderful Outdoor World -- brings the great outdoors to urban youth. Credit: Unknown.

Volunteers at WOW (Wonderful Outdoor World) cook up some food for the kids participating in the program. Credit: Unknown.

Smokey the Bear pays a visit to WOW (Wonderful Outdoor World), a program that brings traditional outdoor activities to urban youth. Credit: Unknown.

WOW, the Wonderful Outdoor World program, brings a taste of a real camping experience to urban youth. Credit: Unknown.

Wow, dad look what I caught! Charles Golden and his daughter enjoy a fishing expedition on Lake Pleasant, north of Phoenix, Arizona. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

In the United States, the place for international buyers and U.S. sellers to meet has traditionally been the International Pow Wow, held in a different U.S. city each year. Next year’s Pow Wow will be held in Orlando, Florida. (references)

A few companies in the local travel trade use the annual POW WOW exhibition in the U.S. as a vehicle to stay in personal contact with their U.S. provider or as the venue to recruit new providers and to assess the potential of new products being offered. (references)

Finnish travel agency representatives tend to visit ITB in Berlin, World Travel Mart in London and the Discover America International Pow Wow. Also, the annual Matka - International Travel Fair, a local travel trade fair in Finland, and other Scandinavian travel fairs offer good possibilities for travel destination promotion. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "wow": bow wow. Additional references.

Beginning with "wow": wow-wow.

Ending with "wow": pow-wow.

Albanian

ulërimë (boom, howl, roar, roaring, scream, screech, ululation), ua (do smth. them, do smth. to them), u (oh, to them), thirrje admirimi, sukses i plotë, rënkim (groan, howl, jeremiad, moan, wail, whimper, whine), oho (hollo, oho), lë pa mend, habis (amuse, astonish, astound, bemuse, confound, daze, dazzle, knock, zap), entuziazmoj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هتاف يعبر به عن التعجبو أو الإنفعال, ‏هتاف يعبر به عن الإبتهاج, ‏نجاح باهر, ‏تفاوت بطىء, ‏صيحة فرح, ‏أثار إعجاب السامعين. (various references)

Bulgarian 

вълнувам дълбоко, огромен успех (resounding success), нещо необикновено (novelty), правя силно впечатление (turn on), поразявам (amaze, astound, attaint, defeat, destroy, dismay, flabbergast, impress, overwhelm, plague, smite, stare, strike down). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�. (various references)

Danish

wow (once-around), lydforvrængning (once-around), langsomme frekvensfluktuationer (once-around). (various references)

Dutch

langzame zwevingen (once-around), jengel (once-around), jank (once-around). (various references)

Farsi 

فریادحاکی ازخوشحالی وتعجب وحیرت , موفق شدن (Arrive, Attain, Prosper, Succeed), چیزجالب . (various references)

Finnish

hidas huojunta (once-around). (various references)

French

terrible, sensationnel (out of this world, wonderful), sansass, pleurage, impressionner, hurleur, hourra, emballer, cri de joie, baisse de hauteur de son. (various references)

German

großer Erfolg, großartige Sache, Bombenerfolg (huge success, riotous success, socko). (various references)

Greek 

κλάψιμο (crying), κλαυθμύρισμα (once-around), κατάπληκτικη επιτυχία, γόου (once-around), εκπληκτική επιτυχία. (various references)

Hebrew 

� ביח�" (bark, barking, bow wow, yap). (various references)

Hungarian

remek dolog (beaut, cat's meow, cat's pajamas, cat's whiskers, clinker, lulu, peach, ripper, stem-winder, stunner), nyávogás (caterwaul, caterwauling, caterwauls, meow, mew, miaou, miaow, yowl). (various references)

Italian

successone. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ワープロ馬鹿 (business shirt, dead silence after a joke falls flat, food wagon service, multi-national enterprise, news program, shirt, someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana->kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer, table-side service, talk and varietyshow, vaccine, vagina, vaseline, wacoal, Wagner, wagon, wagon sale, Waikiki, warlock, washer, Washington, Washington Post, WASP, watt, wax, wide, wide-angle lens, wide-band, wife, wild, wild pitch, windshield wipers, windup, wine, wine color, wine glass, wine list, wine red, winecooler, winery, wipe, wipe in, wipe out, wire, wire glass, wired, wireless, wireless mike, wire-wrapping, wise, wivern, working holiday, workshop, World, world class, World Cup, world enterprise, World Games, World Series, worm, wow and flutter, Wyoming, wyvern). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ワウ . (various references)

Korean 

와우. (various references)

Pig Latin

owway.(various references)

Portuguese

uivar (bay, howl, ululate, yawl, yowl), miar (meow, mewl, mule), grande sucesso, grande atração, grande êxito, chuva (rain, water). (various references)

Romanian

lãtrat (bark, barking, bay, bow wow, cry), hau (bow wow), ham! ham (bow wow), ham (bow wow, harness), câine (beast, bow-bow, brute, dog, doggie, hound, wow-wow). (various references)

Russian 

удивлять нечто изумительное, вот это да, огромный успех, поразить (stagger). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sjajan potez. (various references)

Spanish

lloro (cry), gimoteo (blubber, whimper, whine, whining), caray (blimey). (various references)

Swedish

oj (coo, oh, ooh, ouch, whew). (various references)

Turkish

vay be (brother, cor, gee, gee whiz, hello, hullo, my, my hat, phew, whew), vay (ha, phew, whew), radyoda ses bozulması, parmak ısıttıran şey, müthiş şey (prang, smasher), hayret ettirmek (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, dumbfound, dumfound, flabbergast, gravel, mystify, surprise), hayret (amazement, astonishment, bewilderment, consternation, gape, gracious goodness, gracious me, hi, maze, mirabile dictu, my, my hat, nonplus, surprise, what a surprise, what indeed, wonder, wonderment), hayran etmek, büyük başarı (winner), şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback). (various references)

Turkmen 

bд (golly). (various references)

Ukrainian

чудово (adorably, capitally, finely, ideally, incomparably, nobly, noteworthily, perfectly, primely, remarkably, splendid, stunningly, super-duper, very good, wonder), гавкіт, вищати (squeal, yell), от лихо, здорово (bang), приголомшити (numb, transfix). (various references)

Vietnamese 

th� nh tựu không chê được. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "wow": wowed, wowing, wows, wowser, wowsers. (additional references)

Words ending with "wow": bowwow, powwow. (additional references)

Words containing "wow": bowwowed, bowwowing, bowwows, powwowed, powwowing, powwows. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ow, oww, owww, owwww, Owwwww, qwol, wavw, wawy, wcw, wdow, wew, wewe, wiw, Wiwa, Wlo, woa, wob, woc, wod, wof, wog, woi, wom, woow, woq, wos, wot, wou, wouw, wov, wowi, wown, wowo, wowt, wowy, woy, woz, wpw, wso, wuw, ww, wwb, Wwi, wwx, wyo, zwo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ow, wo.

+1 letter: wows.

+2 letters: widow, wowed.

+3 letters: bowwow, kowtow, powwow, wallow, widows, willow, window, winnow, wowing, wowser.

+4 letters: awlwort, bowwows, kowtows, lowbrow, lowdown, newmown, powwows, swallow, towaway, wallows, warwork, warworn, waxwork, waxworm, wayworn, webwork, webworm, werwolf, whitlow, widowed, widower, willows, willowy, windows, windrow, wingbow, winnows, woadwax, woodwax, wowsers.

+5 letters: awlworts, blowdown, bowwowed, chowchow, downtown, downward, downwash, downwind, drawdown, glowworm, kowtowed, kowtower, lowbrows, lowdowns, powwowed, showdown, slowdown, slowworm, snowplow, stowaway, swallows, towaways, townwear, wallowed, wallower, warpower, warworks, washbowl, waxworks, waxworms, webworks, webworms, werewolf, whipworm, whitlows, widowers, widowing, wildfowl, wildwood, willowed, willower, windowed, windrows, wingbows, winnowed, winnower, wirework, wireworm, woodwind, woodwork, woodworm, woolwork, workweek, wormwood.