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σόου

show /ˈso.u/

nounA2#820 most common

Also: performance, spectacle, TV/entertainment programme

Example sentences

Μου αρέσει πολύ αυτό το σόου.
I really like this show.
Το σόου αρχίζει στις εννιά.
The show starts at nine.
Είδαμε ένα ωραίο σόου χθες το βράδυ.
We saw a nice show last night.
Το βραδινό σόου είχε πολλούς διάσημους καλεσμένους.
The evening show had many famous guests.
Μην κάνεις σόου μπροστά στους ξένους, σε παρακαλώ.
Please don't make a scene in front of the guests.
Όλη η συνέντευξη Τύπου ήταν ένα καλοστημένο σόου για τα ΜΜΕ.
The whole press conference was a well-staged show for the media.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeσόουσόου
Genitiveσόουσόου
Accusativeσόουσόου
Vocativeσόουσόου

Word family

σόουμανshowman, entertainer
ταλκ σόουtalk show
ριάλιτι σόουreality show
σόου μπίζνεςshow business
σόουρούμshowroom, display space

Etymology

σόου is a 20th-century loanword taken wholesale from English 'show' and used as an indeclinable neuter noun. English 'show' descends from Old English scēawian 'to look at, display', from Proto-Germanic *skawwōną, traced to a PIE root meaning 'to perceive, pay heed to'. By that long detour the modern Greek borrowing has distant native cognates such as Ancient Greek κοέω 'to perceive'.

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