Definitions of WOO [wu]

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Definition of 'WOO'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) woo
to seek the favor, affection, or love of, esp. with a view to marriage.

2. woo
to seek or invite:
to woo fame; to woo one's own destruction.

3. woo
to seek to persuade (a person, group, etc.), as to do something; solicit; importune.

4. (v.i.) woo
to court a woman.

Etymology: (bef. 1050; ME wowen, late OE wōgian)

Definition of 'WOO'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) woo, court
seek someone's favor
"China is wooing Russia"

2. (verb) woo, court, romance, solicit
make amorous advances towards
"John is courting Mary"

Definition of 'WOO'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) WOO
to solicit in love; to court

2. (verb) WOO
to court solicitously; to invite with importunity

3. (verb) WOO
to court; to make love

Translation of 'WOO'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (of a man) to seek as a wife He wooed the daughter of the king.
Afrikaans: aanlê by, die hof maak	Arabic: يَخْطُب وُد، يَتَوَدَّد إ	Bulgarian: ухажвам
Brazilian: cortejar	Czech: ucházet se o	German: freien um
Danish: bejle til	Greek: πολιορκώ (μτφ.), φλερτάρω	Spanish: cortejar
Estonian: kosima	Farsi: خواستگاری کردن؛ اظهار عشق	Finnish: kosiskella
French: faire la cour (à)	Hebrew: לְחַזֵר	Hindi: प्रेम जताना
Croatian: udvarati	Hungarian: udvarol (vkinek)	Indonesian: melamar
Icelandic: biðla til	Italian: corteggiare	Japanese: 求愛する
Korean: 구애하다	Lithuanian: merginti, pirštis	Latvian: bildināt
Malay: cuba memikat; mengurat	Dutch: het hof maken	Norwegian: fri/beile til
Polish: zalecać się	Persian: خواستگاری کردن؛ اظهار عشق	Pashto: مينه ښكاره كول، رضا كول (
Portuguese: cortejar	Romanian: a curta	Russian: ухаживать
Slovak: uchádzať sa o, nahovárať	Slovenian: dvoriti	Serbian: udvarati se
Swedish: fria till, uppvakta	Thai: แสวงหาความรัก	Turkish: kur yapmak
Taiwanese: (男性)以結婚為前提追求	Ukrainian: залицятися; свататися	Urdu: شادی کا پیغام دینا
Vietnamese: theođuổi	Chinese: （男性）向女子求婚
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