English-Czech translations for vow

• přísaha
• slib
  Na této vaší ideální svaté cestě vám navrhuji jiný slib: slib jednat. On this, your ideal path of holiness, I suggest you take a different vow: a vow of action.
  To je řád, který složil slib mlčenlivosti. That is an order that has taken a vow of silence.
  Podle pana Schulze jste, dámy a pánové, jako trapističtí mniši, kteří složili slib mlčenlivosti. According to Mr Schulz, you, ladies and gentlemen, are like Trappist monks who have taken the vow of silence.

Definition of vow

• 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
• A declaration or assertion
• A votive offering
• To make a vow; to promise
• To make a vow regarding (something
• To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation

Examples

• The old hermit, up in the mountains, took a vow of silence
• The wronged woman vowed revenge.
• The rebels vowed to continue their fight.

Related words

• vowel
• vowels
• disavow
• avow
• semivowel
• avowed
• avowal
• disavowal
• avowedly