VOILA
What does "VOILA" mean?
An exclamation used to present a result or call attention to something, as if to say 'there it is!'
Meanings
- Used to announce that something has appeared, been completed, or been revealed. A pinch of salt, a quick stir, and voila - dinner is served. informal
Did you know?
- 'Voila' is a tiny grammatical machine: it fuses the French command 'voi' (see) with 'la' (there), so it literally orders you to 'look there' - and its rarer twin 'voici' means 'look here'.
Word origin
Borrowed from French 'voila', a contraction of 'vois la' (literally 'see there'), from 'voir' (to see) plus 'la' (there).
Remember it
VOILA = 'voi' (see) + 'la' (there); say it and you point at the result.
A little poem
The magician's hands part like a curtain;
the long trick collapses to one syllable-
voila, and the work is invisible again.
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Wordplay
- I learned 'voila' means 'see there' in French, so now when I finish nothing I just point at the empty table and announce it anyway.
What it teaches
Every effortless 'voila' is the last second of an hour no one watched.
Quick facts
What does VOILA mean?
An exclamation used to present a result or call attention to something, as if to say 'there it is!'
Is VOILA a valid word?
Yes — VOILA is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is VOILA?
VOILA has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does VOILA come from?
Borrowed from French 'voila', a contraction of 'vois la' (literally 'see there'), from 'voir' (to see) plus 'la' (there).
What can VOILA teach us?
Every effortless 'voila' is the last second of an hour no one watched.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.