exclaim
/ɛkˈskleɪm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I am a soldier, and unapt to weep, Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness."
- "Very grave and good Women exclaimed against Men who begot Children and then disowned them."
- "This wretched note was the finale of Emma’s breakfast. When once it had been read, there was no doing any thing, but lament and exclaim."
- "[…] he could remember Sally tearing off a rose, stopping to exclaim at the beauty of the cabbage leaves in the moonlight […]"
- "[…] at the front door below a few guests were leaving, and the bright rectangle widened and narrowed as they slipped out into the night, laughing and exclaiming about the weather."
- "Must she be forc’d, t’exclaime th’iniurious wrong? Offred by him, whom she hath lou’d so long? Nay, I will tell, and I durst almost sweare, Edward will blush, when he his fault shall heare."
Etymology
From Middle French exclamer, from Latin exclāmō, exclāmāre (“call out”), from ex- + clāmō (“to call”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *kelh₁-, exclamer, exclamo