praise
/pɹeɪz/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The writer's latest novel received great praise in the media."
- "You deserve praise for the hard work you've done recently."
- "She gave them some faint praise for their assignments, despite not being totally convinced by the quality."
- "dim praise"
- "praise of God"
- "Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord."
Etymology
From Middle English praise, preyse, from the verb (see below). Doublet of prize. Displaced native Middle English lof from Old English lof (“praise”) and Middle English loenge, loange from Old French löenge, löange (“praise”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: praise, praisen, proisier, pretiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɹeɪz/
- British English: /pɹeɪz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
praises (plural)
praises (present, singular)
praising (participle, present)
praised (participle, past)
praised (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
praised (first person, past)
praisest (archaic, present)
praised (past, second person)
praisedst (archaic, past)
praiseth (archaic, present)
Derived Forms
bepraise
praiseful
praiseless
praisemen
praisesomet
praiseworthy
mispraise
outpraise
overpraise
praisable
praiser
superpraise