Jove
noun/dʒəʊv/
/dʒəʊv/
Word Originfrom Latin Jov-, stem of Old Latin Jovis, replaced later by Jupiter. The exclamation by Jove dates from the late 16th cent.
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See Jove in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryby Jove
- (old-fashioned, informal, especially British English) used to express surprise or to emphasize a statement
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