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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. WOnoun

    Etymology: wa , Saxon.

    The king is mad: how stiff is my vile sense,
    That I stand up and have ingenious feeling
    Of my huge sorrows! better I were distract;
    So should my thoughts be sever’d from my griefs;
    And woes by wrong imaginations, lose
    The knowledge of themselves. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    So many miseries have craz’d my voice,
    That my woe weary’d tongue is still. William Shakespeare.

    Her rash hand in evil hour,
    Forth reaching to the fruit, Eve pluck’d, she eat:
    Earth felt the wound; and nature from her seat
    Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe
    That all was lost. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

    O’er dreary wastes, they weep each other’s wo. Alexander Pope.

    All is but lip wisdom which wants experience: I now, wo is me, do try what love can do. Philip Sidney.

    Wo is my heart;
    That poor soldier, that so richly fought,
    Whose rags sham’d gilded arms; whose naked breast
    Stept before shields of proof, cannot be found. William Shakespeare.

    Many of our princes, woe the while!
    Lie drown’d and soak’d in mercenary blood. William Shakespeare.

    Happy are they which have been my friends; and woe to my lord chief-justice. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    Howl ye, wo worth the day. Ezek. xxx. 2.

    Wo be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves. Ez.

    Wo is me for my hurt, my wound is grievous. Jer. x. 19.

    If God be such a being as I have described, wo to the world if it were without him: this would be a thousand times greater loss to mankind than the extinguishing of the sun. John Tillotson.

    Woe to the vanquish’d, woe! John Dryden, Albion.

    Can there be a wo or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice; of which one single instance could involve all mankind in one universal confusion. Robert South, Sermons.

    Woe are we, sir! you may not live to wear
    All your true followers out. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.

    Love’s a mighty lord;
    And hath so humbled me, as, I confess,
    There is no wo to his correction. William Shakespeare.

ChatGPT

  1. wo

    Wo is a slang term or abbreviation commonly used to refer to the video game "World of Warcraft" developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It is an online multiplayer game in which players assume the roles of various characters in a fantasy world, engaging in quests, battles, and interactions with other players.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wo

    see Woe

Wikidata

  1. Wo

    を, in hiragana, or ヲ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Wo

    Same as Woe.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WO

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wo is ranked #47791 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Wo surname appeared 443 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Wo.

    76.3% or 338 total occurrences were Asian.
    15.1% or 67 total occurrences were White.
    2.4% or 11 total occurrences were Black.
    2.4% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.5% or 7 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of WO in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of WO in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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