different between encourage vs woo

English

Alternative forms

• incourage (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English encouragen, encoragen, from Anglo-Norman encoragier, from Old French encoragier from en- +? corage "courage". Displaced native Middle English belden, bielden (“to encourage”) (from Old English bieldan (“to encourage”)), Middle English bealden, balden (“to encourage”) (from Old English bealdian (“to encourage, make bold”)), Middle English herten (“to encourage, enhearten”) (from Old English hiertan, hyrtan (“to enhearten”)), Old English elnian (“to encourage, strengthen”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?k???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?k???d?/
• Hyphenation: en?cour?age

Verb

encourage (third-person singular simple present encourages, present participle encouraging, simple past and past participle encouraged) (transitive)

1. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.

   I encouraged him during his race.

2. To spur on, strongly recommend.

   We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.

3. To foster, give help or patronage

   The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed

Synonyms

• bield
• embolden

Antonyms

• becourage
• discourage

Derived terms

• encouragement
• encouraging
• encouragingly

Related terms

• courage

Translations

French

Verb

encourage

1. inflection of encourager:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. singular imperative

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo?o, IPA^(key): /wu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

From Middle English wowen, wo?en, from Old English w?gian (“to woo, court, marry”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots wow (“to woo”). Perhaps related to Old English w?g, w?h (“bending, crookedness”), in the specific sense of "bend or incline (some)one toward oneself". If so, then derived from Proto-Germanic *wanh? (“a bend, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wonk- (“crooked, bent”), from Proto-Indo-European *w?- (“to bend, twist, turn”); related to Old Norse vá (“corner, angle”).

Alternative forms

• wo, wow, wowe (obsolete)

Verb

woo (third-person singular simple present woos, present participle wooing, simple past and past participle wooed)

1. (transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's support.
2. (transitive) (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, epistle to Charles Montagu.

     Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.
3. (transitive) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
   • a. 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Summer Wind

     I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.

Synonyms

• (to solicit in love): court; see also Thesaurus:woo

Derived terms

• wooer

Translations

Etymology 2

Interjection

woo

1. (slang) Expressing joy or mirth; woohoo, yahoo.

   "I got you a new cell phone." "Woo, that's great!"

Etymology 3

Adjective

woo (comparative more woo, superlative most woo)

1. Alternative form of woo woo

Noun

woo

1. Alternative form of woo woo

Anagrams

• OWO

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wo?/

Determiner

wóo

1. that, those (masculine)

See also

References

Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wo, wa

Etymology

From Old English w?, w?, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

woo (plural woos)

1. woe, torment, anguish

Synonyms

• angwissh
• we

Descendants

• English: woe
• Scots: wa, wae