vow

Pronunciation: [vau]

Average Rank: 10289

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 誓约, 誓言, 许愿 vi. 起誓, 发誓, 郑重宣言 vt. 立誓, 起誓要, 郑重地宣布

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner
  • v. make a vow; promise
  • v. dedicate to a deity by a vow
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Difficulty: ADVANCED
Exam Tags: cet6 ielts
Word Forms:
Past: vowed
Past Participle: vowed
Plural: vows
Present Participle: vowing
3rd Person: vows

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#5542

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 44.6% (Top 44.6% most frequent)
44.6%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#5325

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 46.8% (Top 46.8% most frequent)
46.8%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

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This word appears in 2 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across different contexts.

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