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exclamation waʊwaʊ informal Expressing astonishment or admiration. ‘Wow!’ he cried enthusiastically Example sentencesExamples - I knew it was different to the usual formulaic melodic guitars they adopted (with great success I might add) for their first three albums, but wow!
- From our seats we can even peer out the window from time to time and see the mountain ski resorts near Sante Fe New Mexico and Salt Lake City Utah, wow!
- Well, I was driving, keeping eyes on the road, and put a hand into the old margarine dish on my lap, when I picked up a piece of cucumber and a potato crisp at the same time, popped them into my mouth and wow!
- Hey Eric, shall I tell everyone what we talked about on the way down - fascinating conversation about Supply Chain Management, wow!
- Now, I'd never heard his name until the defamation trial began but wow!
- Your newsletter is so cool, I thought you were cool before but now… wow!
- Treat it like a date: book dinner, organise champagne for the room and… wow!
- They're fiercely varietal: just one variety in each wine and as for the sheer concentration of fruit and perfume - wow!
- I can't say that there was anything about his voice that made me go ‘Oh wow!’
- I know it's a little longer than normal since my last update (2 days, wow!) but I didn't get round to updating yesterday.
- If we could all live like that, if we all had the strength of no fear… wow!
- That's going to pretty awesome if it goes ahead… 6 months in England… wow!
- I've gone through all this grief and pain and now I feel like… wow!
- I never expected him to be so tall, and those broad muscular shoulders, wow!
- We wrote, phoned, e-mailed and then met, and wow!
- Mark, all I can say is congratulations, good luck and wow!
- Imagine two cute guys chasing after you in real life wowee… lol!
- A crown rests on her pale head which appears entirely devoid of hair, not a beauty by today's standards, but during the 15th century… wow!
- It could be like chocolate cake that you've never tasted and then suddenly, wow!
- The salmon steak ($9 - wow!) was well-cooked and blended perfectly with the sweet homemade chutney.
noun waʊwaʊ informal A sensational success. Example sentencesExamples - People do want to find that unique gift, something that will give a real wow!
- As the game progressed, Celtic began to control the exchanges, but some clever rearguard actions defused some promising Celtic wows, in which Ian Farrell and Tom Butler were prominent.
- Something just felt… too easy… about spinning last year's woes and wows into next year's resolutions.
- Each will be scrutinized by the coaching staff after Grant Noel and Jason Davis failed to produce many wows during the spring.
Synonyms success, box-office success, sell-out, winner, triumph, sensation
verb waʊwaʊ [with object]informal Impress and excite (someone) greatly. they wowed audiences on their recent British tour Example sentencesExamples - The group is used to wowing audiences with acts such as spinning one another in the air from suspended strips of cloth, but the school opted for some less dangerous activities.
- The multitalented, balding star wowed the crowd, so expect him to pop up in New York sometime soon.
- Yet he is fast becoming one of the most sought-after acts in America, wowing the crowds as he plummets through the air from an altitude of 5,000 ft.
- Aspiring student designers wowed the audience with their creations at a spectacular fashion show in Selby Abbey.
- His mid-90s fastball wows fans, but the natural movement on his fastball and slider are behind his improvement this spring.
- Deirdre wowed the judges with her natural beauty, fantastic personality and general warmth as a person.
- I love pretending I'm in the competition, wowing the crowds every night.
- They wowed the crowds with a motorcycle, high dive and car show.
- How a group with this much energy can remain so synchronized is a marvel, but what really wows is that they seem also to be having the time of their lives doing it.
- She was one of the youngest children to perform at the Globe Theatre in Blackpool in March, and is looking forward to wowing the audience at the Albert Halls this month.
- Since 1995 they've been wowing audiences with a crossover style combining their operatic training with Irish folk.
- Many singers are still wowing their fans and at the same time growing old gracefully.
- After wowing the audience at the Willows club in Salford, he is in with a chance of winning the £5,000 grand final on November 16.
- Having performed at Just for Laughs in '97 and '98, he's back to take another crack at wowing audiences.
- One minute he's performing in a musical, the next he's in a television drama, and the next he's wowing audiences with live cabaret.
- While the role of visuals is undeniable, another vital part of what wows people and helps sell them on a game is the quality of information available about it - which is clearly related to the supporting publicity.
- The young man soon finds he can stay on the ship by playing the piano, after proving himself a genius on the instrument and wowing the captain.
- And youngsters from Commonweal School were victorious, with two winning poems, which wowed the judges.
- Lemar, who came third in the reality TV show competition, will be wowing the audience with songs, including the tune Lullaby which he composed along with fellow contestant Ainsley.
- The singers took turns wowing the audience with popular film songs.
Synonyms entertain, make laugh, delight, divert, gladden, cheer, cheer up, please, charm, tickle, convulse, beguile, enliven, regale
Origin Natural exclamation: first recorded in Scots in the early 16th century. Rhymes 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, Yangshao noun waʊwaʊ mass nounSlow pitch fluctuation in sound reproduction, perceptible in long notes. Compare with flutter (sense 1 of the noun) Example sentencesExamples - The CD ends on a wow note, with Enough, a deep and beautiful piece.
- Unlike ‘Within the Golden Hour,’ ‘Changes’ doesn't end on a wow note but instead recapitulates its opening scene, as the curtain falls.
exclamationwouwaʊ informal Expressing astonishment or admiration. “Wow!” he cried enthusiastically Example sentencesExamples - I knew it was different to the usual formulaic melodic guitars they adopted (with great success I might add) for their first three albums, but wow!
- They're fiercely varietal: just one variety in each wine and as for the sheer concentration of fruit and perfume - wow!
- Hey Eric, shall I tell everyone what we talked about on the way down - fascinating conversation about Supply Chain Management, wow!
- That's going to pretty awesome if it goes ahead… 6 months in England… wow!
- A crown rests on her pale head which appears entirely devoid of hair, not a beauty by today's standards, but during the 15th century… wow!
- I know it's a little longer than normal since my last update (2 days, wow!) but I didn't get round to updating yesterday.
- It could be like chocolate cake that you've never tasted and then suddenly, wow!
- Mark, all I can say is congratulations, good luck and wow!
- Imagine two cute guys chasing after you in real life wowee… lol!
- I never expected him to be so tall, and those broad muscular shoulders, wow!
- I've gone through all this grief and pain and now I feel like… wow!
- From our seats we can even peer out the window from time to time and see the mountain ski resorts near Sante Fe New Mexico and Salt Lake City Utah, wow!
- I can't say that there was anything about his voice that made me go ‘Oh wow!’
- We wrote, phoned, e-mailed and then met, and wow!
- Now, I'd never heard his name until the defamation trial began but wow!
- Your newsletter is so cool, I thought you were cool before but now… wow!
- Treat it like a date: book dinner, organise champagne for the room and… wow!
- If we could all live like that, if we all had the strength of no fear… wow!
- Well, I was driving, keeping eyes on the road, and put a hand into the old margarine dish on my lap, when I picked up a piece of cucumber and a potato crisp at the same time, popped them into my mouth and wow!
- The salmon steak ($9 - wow!) was well-cooked and blended perfectly with the sweet homemade chutney.
nounwouwaʊ informal A sensational success. Example sentencesExamples - As the game progressed, Celtic began to control the exchanges, but some clever rearguard actions defused some promising Celtic wows, in which Ian Farrell and Tom Butler were prominent.
- Something just felt… too easy… about spinning last year's woes and wows into next year's resolutions.
- People do want to find that unique gift, something that will give a real wow!
- Each will be scrutinized by the coaching staff after Grant Noel and Jason Davis failed to produce many wows during the spring.
Synonyms success, box-office success, sell-out, winner, triumph, sensation
verbwouwaʊ [with object]informal Impress and excite (someone) greatly. they wowed audiences on their recent British tour Example sentencesExamples - Aspiring student designers wowed the audience with their creations at a spectacular fashion show in Selby Abbey.
- After wowing the audience at the Willows club in Salford, he is in with a chance of winning the £5,000 grand final on November 16.
- One minute he's performing in a musical, the next he's in a television drama, and the next he's wowing audiences with live cabaret.
- The young man soon finds he can stay on the ship by playing the piano, after proving himself a genius on the instrument and wowing the captain.
- I love pretending I'm in the competition, wowing the crowds every night.
- Lemar, who came third in the reality TV show competition, will be wowing the audience with songs, including the tune Lullaby which he composed along with fellow contestant Ainsley.
- While the role of visuals is undeniable, another vital part of what wows people and helps sell them on a game is the quality of information available about it - which is clearly related to the supporting publicity.
- The singers took turns wowing the audience with popular film songs.
- She was one of the youngest children to perform at the Globe Theatre in Blackpool in March, and is looking forward to wowing the audience at the Albert Halls this month.
- And youngsters from Commonweal School were victorious, with two winning poems, which wowed the judges.
- Yet he is fast becoming one of the most sought-after acts in America, wowing the crowds as he plummets through the air from an altitude of 5,000 ft.
- The group is used to wowing audiences with acts such as spinning one another in the air from suspended strips of cloth, but the school opted for some less dangerous activities.
- Having performed at Just for Laughs in '97 and '98, he's back to take another crack at wowing audiences.
- Deirdre wowed the judges with her natural beauty, fantastic personality and general warmth as a person.
- Since 1995 they've been wowing audiences with a crossover style combining their operatic training with Irish folk.
- His mid-90s fastball wows fans, but the natural movement on his fastball and slider are behind his improvement this spring.
- How a group with this much energy can remain so synchronized is a marvel, but what really wows is that they seem also to be having the time of their lives doing it.
- Many singers are still wowing their fans and at the same time growing old gracefully.
- They wowed the crowds with a motorcycle, high dive and car show.
- The multitalented, balding star wowed the crowd, so expect him to pop up in New York sometime soon.
Synonyms entertain, make laugh, delight, divert, gladden, cheer, cheer up, please, charm, tickle, convulse, beguile, enliven, regale
Origin Natural exclamation: first recorded in Scots in the early 16th century. nounwaʊwou Slow pitch fluctuation in sound reproduction, perceptible in long notes. Compare with flutter (sense 1 of the noun) Example sentencesExamples - Unlike ‘Within the Golden Hour,’ ‘Changes’ doesn't end on a wow note but instead recapitulates its opening scene, as the curtain falls.
- The CD ends on a wow note, with Enough, a deep and beautiful piece.
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