vow meaning
EN
[vaʊ] [-aʊ] WVow
- A vow (Lat. votum, vow, promise; see vote) is a promise or oath.
- NounPLvows
- A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
- The old hermit, up in the mountains, took a vow of silence.
- A declaration or assertion.
- Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
- A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
- VerbSGvowsPRvowingPT, PPvowed
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a vow; to promise.
- (transitive) To make a vow regarding (something).
- The wronged woman vowed revenge.
- To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation.
- The rebels vowed to continue their fight.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a vow; to promise.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In his final essay, "Breaking the Wand," James swears off his own "sabremetrician" label and vows to stop doing the Abstract.
- He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation. -George Buck.
- The old hermit, up in the mountains, took a vow of silence.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Vowing to fight some regulations imposed by the Obama administration, Mr. Bush said he was “not suggesting unregulating the world,” merely “common-sense 21st-century rules.”
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of vow in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "vow" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.