Usually means: Expression of surprise, admiration, or excitement.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word wow:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. wow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wow: Merriam-Webster
  3. wow, wow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wow, wow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wow: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wow: Vocabulary.com
  7. WOw, Wow, wow, wOw: Wordnik
  8. wow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. WoW, wow: Wiktionary
  10. wow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. WOW: Dictionary.com
  14. wow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. W.O.W, WOW (Junko Onishi album), WOW (Mouse on Mars album), WOW (TV station), WOW (Wendy O. Williams album), WOW (channel), WOW, WOW, WoW, Wow (Beck song), Wow (Kate Bush song), Wow (Kylie Minogue song), Wow (Post Malone song), Wow (Ruslana song), Wow (Zara Larsson song), Wow (band), Wow (disambiguation), Wow (film), Wow (recording), Wow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. wow: Rhymezone
  18. WOW: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. wow: FreeDictionary.org
  20. wow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. wow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. wow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WOW: Financial dictionary
  2. Wow: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. wow: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WOW: Acronym Finder
  2. WOW: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. wow, wow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wow: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. wow: The Folk File
  4. W.O.W, WOW, WoW (AKA the MMORPG crack), Wow, w.o.w, w.o.w: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See wowed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, informal) To amaze or awe.
noun:  (informal) Anything exceptionally surprising, unbelievable, outstanding, etc.
noun:  (informal) An utterance of "wow".
noun:  (audio) A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.
noun:  (video games) Initialism of World of Warcraft.
noun:  (US, politics, derogatory) Initialism of War on Women. [(US, politics, US politics, derogatory) Political efforts and initiatives to reduce women's rights, especially their reproductive rights.]
noun:  (computing, software) Initialism of Windows on Windows.

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