woo

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
Lee Cheol-woo, a South Korean ruling party lawmaker, said in a radio interview that Kim is

View all »
Definitions (16)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (5)

  1. transitive verb To seek the affection of with intent to romance.
  2. transitive verb To seek to achieve; try to gain.
  3. transitive verb To tempt or invite.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (7)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (36)

  • Far easier to appropriate a possibly underutilized part of science - and evidence-based medicine and then wrap it in woo, which is exactly what Chopra does in this article. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • Kim Tae-woo, a missile expert at the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul, said the North has been focusing on efforts to mount nuclear warheads on the Rodongs because the long-range Taepodong series has not been fully deployed yet. —  Newsmax - Inside Cover
  • But Kim Tae-woo, an analyst at Seoul's state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, said the launch raises the stakes at stalled talks aimed at convincing the North to give up its nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid and concessions because Pyongyang now has more to bargain away. —  phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
  • But Kim Tae-woo, an analyst at Seoul's state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, said the launch raises the stakes at stalled disarmament talks because Pyongyang now has more to bargain away. —  phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
  • Kim Tae-woo, an analyst at Seoul's state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, said the launch would also raise the stakes at stalled disarmament talks because Pyongyang now has more to bargain away. —  TheState.com: The Buzz
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 190 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

lovemaking ·  wooer ·  caress ·  courtship ·  love-making ·  adoration ·  plead

Used in the same contextWord Family

woo:   wooing ·  wooed ·  woos
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English wowen, from Old English wōgian.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Early modern English also wo, wow, wowe; from Middle English wowen, woʒen, from Anglo-Saxon wōgian, in comp. āwōgian, woo; prob. literally ‘bend, incline,’ hence incline another toward oneself, from wōh (wōg-), bent, curved, crooked; cf. Goth, wahs, bent, in comp. un-wahs, not crooked, blameless; cf. Sanskrit vañch, go tortuously, be crooked; cf. Latin vacillare, vacillate, varus, crooked: see vacillate, varicose, etc.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/Wu/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a week.

Recently looked up

boorish · precedents · pathos · puke · twilight

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich