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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin applausus, from applaudō (“I strike against, I applaud”) (whence applaud).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) enPR: əplôzʹ, IPA(key): /əˈplɔːz/
- Rhymes: -ɔːz
- (US) enPR: əplôzʹ, IPA(key): /əˈplɔz/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: əpläz', IPA(key): /əˈplɑz/
Audio (GA) (file)
Noun[edit]
applause (usually uncountable, plural applauses)
- The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.
- Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, approbation, approval, commendation, plaudit; see also Thesaurus:applause, Thesaurus:praise
- 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XLVI, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 535:
- A few days before, the adulations and applauses of a nation were sounding in her [Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma's] ears, and now she was come to this!
- 1904 April 30, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC, page 232:
- Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play. […] It was at such moments that for an instant he [Sherlock Holmes] ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause.
- 1916, Albert Bigelow Paine, chapter 57, in The Boys’ Life of Mark Twain:
- Livy never gets her share of those applauses, but it is because the people do not know. Yet she is entitled to the lion's share.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
act of applauding
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Further reading[edit]
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /apˈplau̯.se/, [äpˈpɫ̪äu̯s̠ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /apˈplau̯.se/, [äpˈpläːu̯se]
Participle[edit]
applause
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