The politician tried to woo corporate interests, but as he was still an insignificant figure on the political scene, they weren't interested.
Source: tatoeba (5263689)
Woo
//wuː//
Synonyms for "woo" (76 found)
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Related words (38)
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8 entriesTranslations
54 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μνηστεύω verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Arabic
1 entries- تَوَدَّدَ verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ухажвам verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Catalan
1 entries- festejar verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 求愛 /求爱 verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- 追求 verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Czech
1 entries- dvořit se verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Danish
1 entries- kurtisere verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Dutch
1 entries- het hof maken verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Esperanto
1 entries- amindumi verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Finnish
3 entries- kosiskella verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- riiata verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- vokotella verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
French
2 entries- courtiser verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- faire la cour (à) verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Galician
1 entries- facer as beiras verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Georgian
1 entries- მოხიბვლა verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
German
3 entries- den Hof machen verb (to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with)
- umwerben verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- umwerben verb (to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with)
Greek
1 entries- κορτάρω verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Hebrew
2 entries- חִזֵּר verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- חיזר verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Hungarian
1 entries- udvarol verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Ido
1 entries- kurtezar verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Italian
2 entries- battere i pezzi verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- corteggiare verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Japanese
1 entries- 求愛する verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Māori
4 entries- aruaru verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- mātoro verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- whaipo verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- whakaipo verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یشیللنمك verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Polish
2 entries- umizgiwać się verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- zalecać się verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Portuguese
1 entries- cortejar verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Romanian
2 entries- curta verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- face curte verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Russian
3 entries- добива́ться расположе́ния verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- сва́таться verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- уха́живать verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- snubiti verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Spanish
4 entries- cortejar verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- doñear verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- jotear verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- pololear verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Swedish
3 entries- kurtisera verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- svärma verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- uppvakta verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Turkish
3 entries- asılmak verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- kur yapmak verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
- yazmak verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Yiddish
1 entries- אָווירען verb (to endeavor to gain someone's affection/support)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
I tried to woo his sister, but she didn't want me.
Source: tatoeba (5263692)
Quantum physics has spawned a large amount of woo.
Source: tatoeba (5379459)
Tom's attempts to woo usually fail.
Source: tatoeba (5699121)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.