Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express wonder, amazement, or great pleasure.
- n. An outstanding success.
- v. To have a strong, usually pleasurable effect on: a performance that wowed the audience.
- n. Slow variation in the pitch of a sound reproduction resulting from variations in the speed of the recording or reproducing equipment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An exclamation of pleasure, surprise, or wonder.
Wiktionary
- interj. An indication of excitement or surprise.
- interj. An expression of amazement or awe.
- v. To amaze or awe.
- n. An exceptionally surprising or unbelievable fact.
- n. video games World of Warcraft, a computer based MMORPG.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a joke that seems extremely funny
- v. impress greatly
Etymologies
- Acronym (Wiktionary)
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The costs wow powerlevel only keep piling up as you progress in levels, making gold world of warcraft power leveling farming one of the most arduous and boring tasks a player is challenged with.,wow leveling wow leveling。”
“[Illustration] _Bow wow, wow_, says the Dog at the Door.”
Goody Two-Shoes A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766
“At this Instant something was heard to slap at the Window, _Wow, wow, wow_, says Jumper, and attempted to leap up and open the Door, at which the Children were surprized; but Mrs. _Margery_ knowing what it was, opened the Casement, as _Noah_ did the Window of the”
Goody Two-Shoes A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766
“At last it cries, _Bow, wow, wow_; and I concluded it must be Mr. _Saunderson_'s Dog, which had followed me from their”
Goody Two-Shoes A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766
“Bow, wow, _wow_!" exclaimed Cuffy in tones which there could be no mistaking, although the broken twigs and herbage which covered the mouth of the pit muffled them a good deal, and accounted for the strangeness of the creature's howls when heard at a distance.”
“this (at 8: 33) high bar routine from a japanese gymnast. my mouth drops open, agog at the amazing feats of mid-air acrobatics. me: wow …. .wow … * wow*!!! did you see that?!? noble savage: I alway find that really shocking too.”
“The meaning of his _bow, wow, wow_, every time he repeated the words, was, "I'll bite you!”
“Wasserman Schultz had what she called a "wow moment" when Giffords called out to Sergeant-at-Arms Bill Livingood by name.”
“Elizabeth prefaced her address with a greeting in Gaelic, prompting the Irish president, Mary McAleese, sitting at her side, to mouth the word "wow" in appreciation of the gesture.”
“Yes | No | Report from fliphuntr14 wrote 9 weeks 6 days ago thats a big log if that bear could get in wow that is and awesome picture”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wow’.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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Palindromes
tenet, �?ΙΨΟ�? Α�?ΟΜΗΜΑΤ..., rotator, kayak, tattarrattat, detartrated, racecar, level, step on no pets, fall leaves after..., level, madam, level!, reviver and 108 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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WF - palindromes
alula, anna, bib, bob, civic, dad, deed, dud, DVD, eve, ewe, eye and 91 more...
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test2029
humblebrag, foo, bar, hotel, california, Mint, FO, aw, Shiznit, sexy, Boo, Flakey and 29 more...
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terrific
tremendous, howling, rattling, radical, gorgon, awe(ful)some, pitch Seaver, wow, ohwowho, remarkedable, terrifical, stupendous and 8 more...
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IxLovexApples's list
this is a list of the words I use the most. if you look at all of them you can kind of tell my personality.
bitch, hot, kool, wow, wtf, omfg, slut, ass, gay, ugh, bleh, spaz and 12 more...
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Words With Initial and Final "w"
Words with an initial and final "w", such as whittaw, williwaw, windlestraw and wow-wow.
whitlow, willow, withdraw, window, widow, workflow, worldview, wallow, wheelbarrow, whew, winnow, whipsaw and 20 more...
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• "Shalt not..." How do you spell tha...
Euphemisms in religions: on the way religions avoid mentioning some words, with the funny flip side that people get more interested in them.
(I don't want to be disrespectful, we're ju...glue of lust, carnal knowledge, sins of the flesh, occasion of sin, interfering with ..., impure thoughts, lusted after in m..., patent-leather shoes, delectatio morosa, desiderium, gaudium, internal sin and 15 more...
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Pseudo-edge
The middle-aged corporate marketer's version of a teen lexicon.
ultimate, extreme, chillin, totally, bling, karma, stoke, smooth, flav, punch, ish, hype and 46 more...
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 599 more... -
Shadowkeir's list
This list, the one shown below this very message, is a collection of words that you cannot begin to fathom how much I adore. The list will also feature atithesis and contrasting words such as the t...
wishful, anticlimactic, forte, monchromatic, septic, wonderous, isoclinal, deformed, disintergrate, favourite, laughable, awe-inspiring and 250 more...
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LWC's Words
spork, heteroskedasticity, kurtosis, eigenspace, smithian, skewness, montanan, whoremonger, mellifluous, fishwife, papist, romanist and 142 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2465 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wow.

reesetee Wow. Jul 9, 2009
plethora *yawn* Heard it all before. Gets less interesting, more of a generalisation and more offensive ("You don't know how lucky you are your parents don't beat you"? Really?) every time.
Although, I must say "You don't know how lucky you are to have caller ID!!" is a new one. Jul 8, 2009
seanahan To put that more succinctly, "Get off my lawn!" Jul 8, 2009
elohiwarrior When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears
with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were.. When they were growing up; walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning
barefoot....Uphill...BOTH ways - In the snow... Yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
there was no way in hell I was going to lay
a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it
and how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of
fifty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a virtual Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you
don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, We had to go to the county library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!!
There was no email!!! We had to actually write
somebody a letter, with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! No where was safe!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to
steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talked over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone quite often.
We didn't have fancy features like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school,
your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you
just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video
games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games
like 'Space Invaders', 'Pong' and 'asteroids'. You
actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or
screens, it was just one screen
forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting
harder and harder and
faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE !
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off
your keister and walk over to the TV to change the channel! No remote control either. There was no
Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons
on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying?! We had to wait ALL WEEK
for cartoons, you spoiled
little brats! And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove's oven ... Imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids
today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted
five minutes back in 1970 or before ! Jul 7, 2009
elohiwarrior Arghh, I wanted to go to six flags and be a pirate this summer but mom got me this crummy free wow download. Jul 7, 2009
sabrinna Wow!: What someone usually says when suprised. WoW: An acronym for the game World of Warcraft. (Where people usually make fools of themselves and become addicted to something that is obviously not real)..wait..there are real people that play..and that you type and/or talk to..so..it's real..but it's not real????..wow. Jul 6, 2009
alandriadenisewalker You *butt*holes. Leave me alone! May 23, 2009
hernesheir World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero are both properties of the company Activision Blizzard. Jan 16, 2009
reesetee Okay, here's one: Wow. Nov 18, 2008
bilby C'mon reesetee, tell us a joke! Nov 18, 2008
reesetee Uh, WeirdNet...what?? Nov 18, 2008
bilby Acronym of World of Wordiecraft, an addictive online experience where pasty-faced nerds stalk each other with barbed lexemes. Nov 18, 2008
sakhalinskii I was not aware words existed in the third dimension Jul 31, 2008
oroboros Not if you place the mirror above or below the word. Mar 26, 2008
uselessness Um... Isn't MOM in the mirror just... MOM? If you want WOW, you need only turn it upside down, no mirror needed. Dec 4, 2007
oroboros MOM in the mirror! Wow! Dec 2, 2007