Definitions for vow

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vow vow

Spelling: [vou]

IPA: /vaʊ/

Vow is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in vow (ovw).

Definitions for vow

noun

1. a solemn promise, pledge, or personal commitment:
2. a solemn promise made to a deity or saint committing oneself to an act, service, or condition.
3. a solemn or earnest declaration.

Idioms

1. take vows, to enter a religious order or house.

verb (used with object)

1. to make a vow of; promise by a vow, as to God or a saint:
2. to pledge or resolve solemnly to do, make, give, observe, etc.:
3. to declare solemnly or earnestly; assert emphatically (often followed by a clause as object):
4. to dedicate or devote by a vow:

verb (used without object)

1. to make a vow.
2. to make a solemn or earnest declaration.

Origin of vow

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French vo(u) Latin vōtum, neuter of vōtus, past participle of vovēre to vow

Examples for vow

They vow to meet after the war--home by Christmas--for a reunion at their Berlin bar.

And it was true I could have snatched the meat from her like a wolf, but because of my vow I would not.

I brought sickness on the village, and on you hunger and the breaking of your vow.'

The quality of sincerity in Dick's voice was more convincing than any vow might have been.

Everything he stands for at the moment, and his soaring popularity in Russia, hinges on his vow to protect Russian speakers.

Hamas spokesmen stand by the hospital gates and denounce the attack on Al Shejaiya as a massacre and vow to fight on.

The student of nature in all the ages has taken the vow of poverty.

Who had exacted from her so strange a vow, that, although he might be very dear to her, she was never to let him know it?

Kenyatta made a Bush-like vow to continue the war on Al-Shabab, saying, “We will not flinch.”

He made the vow on June 30, and I remember thinking at the time how strange it seemed.