Usually means: Great sorrow or distress experienced.
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  1. woe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. woe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. woe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. woe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. woe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Woe, woe: Wordnik
  7. woe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. woe: Wiktionary
  9. woe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. woe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. woe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. woe: Dictionary.com
  13. woe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. woe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Woe (band), Woe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Woe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. woe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. woe: Rhymezone
  19. woe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. woe: Free Dictionary
  21. woe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. woe: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
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  1. woe: Legal dictionary

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Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. WOE: Acronym Finder
  2. WOE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. woe: Idioms

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
noun:  Calamity, trouble.
noun:  A curse; a malediction.
adjective:  (obsolete) Woeful; sorrowful

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