Usually means: Solemn promise, often of commitment.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. vow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vow: Merriam-Webster
  3. vow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vow, vow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vow: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vow: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vow, vow: Wordnik
  8. vow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vow: Wiktionary
  10. vow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. vow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. vow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. vow: Dictionary.com
  14. vow (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. vow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Vow, Vow (Garbage song), Vow (disambiguation), Vow (song), Vow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Vow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. vow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. vow: Rhymezone
  20. vow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. vow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. vow: FreeDictionary.org
  23. vow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. vow: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. vow: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. vow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vow: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vow: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  A declaration or assertion.
noun:  (obsolete) A votive offering.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To make a vow; to promise.
verb:  (transitive) To make a vow regarding (something).
verb:  To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation.

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