acclaim, acclamation, plaudits, plaudit, eclat
(noun) enthusiastic approval; “the book met with modest acclaim”; “he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd”; “they gave him more eclat than he really deserved”
acclaim, hail, herald
(verb) praise vociferously; “The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein”
applaud, clap, spat, acclaim
(verb) clap one’s hands or shout after performances to indicate approval
Source: WordNet® 3.1
acclaim (third-person singular simple present acclaims, present participle acclaiming, simple past and past participle acclaimed)
(archaic, transitive) To shout; to call out.
(intransitive) To shout approval; to express great approval.
(transitive, rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
(transitive, obsolete) To claim.
(transitive) To declare by acclamations.
(Canada, politics) To elect to an office by having no opposition.
• First attested in 1667.
acclaim (countable and uncountable, plural acclaims)
(poetic) An acclamation; a shout of applause.
(obsolete) A claim.
• See also applause
• malacic
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*claim", v. t. Etym: [L. acclamare; ad + clamare to cry out. See Claim, Clamor.] [R.]
1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson.
2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett.
3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
Ac*claim", v. i.
Definition: To shout applause.
Ac*claim", n.
Definition: Acclamation. [Poetic] Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
