jove

[US]/dʒəuv/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.chief god Jupiter;the planet Jupiter

Phrases & Collocations

Jove's thunderbolt

praised by Jove

Jove's favor

Real-world Examples

By Jove, no, it was no laughing matter for me!

Source: Amateur Thief Rafiz

" By Jove, Peterson! " said he, " this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you have got? "

Source: The Case of the Blue Sapphire by Sherlock Holmes

I've got my faculties as if I was in my prime, but names wear out, by Jove!

Source: Middlemarch (Part Four)

By Jove! I cried; if he really wants someone to share the rooms and the expense, I am the very man for him.

Source: A Study in Scarlet by Sherlock Holmes

" By Jove! a hundred francs; that's rather stiff, " retorted Favier. " I only want fifty or sixty. You must go in for swell jollifications, then" ?

Source: Women’s Paradise (Part 1)

" By Jove, Nick, it's you! I couldn't be mistaken, though the five-and-twenty years have played old Boguy with us both! How are you, eh? you didn't expect to see me here. Come, shake us by the hand" .

Source: Middlemarch (Part Four)

By Jove! So she was. At last! She was slowly, slowly turning round. A bell sounded far over the water and a great spout of steam gushed into the air. The gulls rose; they fluttered away like bits of white paper.

Source: Garden Party (Part 2)

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