exclamation

exclamation

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for exclamation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclamatio, from ex (“out”) + clamare (“I cry out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

exclamation (countable and uncountable, plural exclamations)

1. A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 45:

     "And now, my dearest Lucy, collect yourself, for all depends upon our own resources." Such were the whispered exclamations with which Francesca cheered her trembling companion, whose courage was not heightened by the darkness and stillness around them as they proceeded on their hazardous enterprise.

2. A word expressing outcry; an interjection
3. (linguistics) A clause type used to make an exclamatory statement: What a mess they made!; How stupid I was!
4. The sign "!" by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked.

Synonyms

• (punctuation “!”): exclamation mark, exclamation point

Derived terms

• exclamation mark, exclamation point

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kelh₁-‎ (0 c, 48 e)

Translations

loud calling or crying out; outcry

Arabic: صِيَاح‎ m (ṣiyāḥ), صُرَاخ‎ m (ṣurāḵ), هَاتِف‎ (ar) m (hātif), هَتْفَة‎ f (hatfa) Armenian: բացականչություն (hy) (bacʿakančʿutʿyun) Azerbaijani: nida (az) Belarusian: вы́гук m (výhuk), во́кліч m (vóklič) Bulgarian: възклица́ние (bg) n (vǎzklicánie) Chinese: Mandarin: 叫喊 (zh) (jiàohǎn), 感嘆／感叹 (zh) (gǎntàn) Czech: zvolání (cs) n, výkřik (cs) m Danish: udråb n Dutch: uitroep (nl) m Estonian: hüüatus Finnish: huudahdus (fi), parahdus (fi) French: exclamation (fr) f Galician: exclamación (gl) f Georgian: წამოძახილი (c̣amoʒaxili), შეძახილი (šeʒaxili) German: Ausruf (de) m Greek: επιφώνημα (el) n (epifónima), αναφώνηση (el) f (anafónisi) Italian: esclamazione (it) f Japanese: 叫び (さけび, sakebi) Kazakh: леп (lep), лептеу (lepteu), саңқылдау (sañqyldau) Korean: 외침 (ko) (oechim) Latin: exclāmātiō f Latvian: iekliegšanās f Lithuanian: sušukimas m Macedonian: извик m (izvik) Malay: jeritan (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: utrop n Polish: okrzyk (pl) m, wykrzyk m Portuguese: exclamação (pt) f Romanian: exclamare (ro) f, exclamație (ro) f Russian: восклица́ние (ru) n (vosklicánije), во́зглас (ru) m (vózglas), вы́крик (ru) m (výkrik), вскрик (ru) m (vskrik) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: у̏звӣк m Roman: ȕzvīk (sh) m Slovak: zvolanie n, výkrik m Slovene: vzklik (sl) m Spanish: exclamación (es) f Swedish: utrop (sv) n Tagalog: bulalas Tajik: нидо (tg) (nido), хитоб (xitob) Turkish: ünlem (tr), haykırış (tr) Ukrainian: ви́гук (uk) m (výhuk), о́крик (uk) m (ókryk), о́клик (uk) m (óklyk) Uzbek: xitob (uz), nido (uz), undov (uz)

word expressing outcry

Bulgarian: възклица́ние (bg) n (vǎzklicánie) Dutch: uitroep (nl) m Finnish: huudahdus (fi) German: Exklamation (de) Greek: επιφώνημα (el) n (epifónima) Italian: esclamazione (it) f Maori: tūhau Russian: восклица́ние (ru) n (vosklicánije) Swedish: interjektion (sv) c

part of speech

Polish: wykrzyknik (pl) m

exclamation mark — see exclamation mark

Further reading

• exclamation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• exclamation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

• Coatlán Mixe

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exclamationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.skla.ma.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

exclamation f (plural exclamations)

1. exclamation (cry of joy)

Derived terms

• point d'exclamation

Related terms

• exclamer

Further reading

• “exclamation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.