applause
/əˈploːz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.83 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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!"
- "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."
- "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."
- "Rice’s celebrations upon his goal were controlled, muted. Not so those of Grealish, who lapped up the applause of the England fans behind the goal."
- "There was a flutter of applause from the audience but, appreciatively, it quickly hushed itself."
- "But (which had ſcarrefide our wounds, if wounded, with the Balme / Of her ſweete Preſence, ſo applaus’d as in Sea-ſtormes a Calme) / Her royall-ſelfe, Elizabeth our Soueraigne lawfull Queene, / In magnanimious Maieſtie amidſt her Troupes was ſeene."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: applausus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈploːz/
- British English: /əˈplɔːz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
applauses (plural)
applauses (present, singular)
applausing (participle, present)
applaused (participle, past)
applaused (past)