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ows

ows is the plural of ow.

Meaning of ow

Noun

ow (plural ows)

  1. An uttering of an 'ow'.
    • Improvising a stretcher from a cupboard door, they levered Mrs Dibble on to it and got her upstairs to "Hoos!" and "Ows!" of anguish, and laid her on the bed, where Rita administered another stiff dose of gin.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 98

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Proper noun capitalized: OWS

OWS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Occupy Wall Street: a protest movement that began in 2011 in New York City's Wall Street financial district, primarily opposing social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the influence of corporations on government.
    • In one of the OWS emails, liberal writer Matt Taibbi encouraged protesters to come up with some demands.2011 October 18, “Media Shill For OWS”, in Investor's Business Daily, page A10
    • OWS has contributed more to our politics than anything else in the last 40 years. Americans are becoming aware of just how unequal and undemocratic this country is and for that OWS has to be shut up.2011, Holdenby, in "Readers React", New York Times, 11/16/2011, page A31

Questions about ows

What is ows the plural of?
Ows is the plural of ow.
What part of speech is ows?
Ows is a proper noun.

Words near ows in the dictionary

  1. Owosso
  2. owre
  3. Owren's disease
  4. owres
  5. owrie
  6. ows
  7. owsen
  8. Owslebury
  9. Owsley
  10. Owsley County
  11. Owsleys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ows (page history and authors); OWS (page history and authors); ow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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