intj
Meaning 1
A falconer's call to a hawk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
wo
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/wo/
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/wɔː/
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rhymes with -o
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rhymes with -ɔː
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CMU ARPABET: W OW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: HH W OW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
intj
Meaning 2
A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.
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noun
Meaning 3
Obsolete spelling of woe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A wall.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Derbyshire, Northern-England, dialectal
Qualifier: Staffordshire
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noun
Meaning 5
Initialism of warrant officer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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Broader terms: officer, person
prefix
Meaning 6
the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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verb
Meaning 7
To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, dialectal, obsolete, possibly
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History
Etymology
Variant of who.
Variant of woe.
From Middle English wough, woh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-West Germanic *waig, from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.