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Dictionary: wow1   (wou) pronunciation 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) pronunciation
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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noun

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

Wikipedia: Wow
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Wow(!) may refer to:

Contents

Business

Media, arts and entertainment

Music

Organizations

Electronics

  • Wow (recording), a pitch variation while playing records with off-center holes
  • Wow! signal, a strong radio signal of unknown origin detected by a SETI project in 1977
  • Windows on Windows, an application compatibility layer in Microsoft Windows
  • World of Warcraft, a very popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game made by video game developer Blizzard.

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Translations: Wow
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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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