ACCLAIM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acclaim mean? 

• ACCLAIM (noun)
  The noun ACCLAIM has 1 sense:

1. enthusiastic approval

  Familiarity information: ACCLAIM used as a noun is very rare.

• ACCLAIM (verb)
  The verb ACCLAIM has 2 senses:

1. praise vociferously

2. clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval

  Familiarity information: ACCLAIM used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCLAIM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enthusiastic approval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

acclaim; acclamation; eclat; plaudit; plaudits

Context example:

they gave him more eclat than he really deserved

Hypernyms ("acclaim" is a kind of...):

approval; commendation (a message expressing a favorable opinion)

Derivation:

acclaim (praise vociferously)

acclaim (clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval)

• ACCLAIM (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they acclaim    ... he / she / it acclaims   
Past simple: acclaimed   
Past participle: acclaimed   
-ing form: acclaiming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Praise vociferously

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

acclaim; hail; herald

Context example:

The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein

Hypernyms (to "acclaim" is one way to...):

applaud (express approval of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue acclaim the movie

Derivation:

acclaim; acclamation (enthusiastic approval)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

acclaim; applaud; clap; spat

Hypernyms (to "acclaim" is one way to...):

gesticulate; gesture; motion (show, express or direct through movement)

"Acclaim" entails doing...:

approve; O.K.; okay; sanction (give sanction to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "acclaim"):

bravo (applaud with shouts of 'bravo' or 'brava')

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

acclaim (enthusiastic approval)

 Context examples 

If you want to stand out above the rest and generate critical acclaim from clients or customers, readers or viewers, you would need a strongly placed Mars.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The master's wife called him the "Blessed Wolf," which name was taken up with acclaim and all the women called him the Blessed Wolf.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His intrinsic beauty and power meant nothing to the hundreds of thousands who were acclaiming him and buying his books.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had seen Brissenden torn to pieces by the crowd, and despite the fact that him the crowd acclaimed, he could not get over the shock nor gather any respect for the crowd.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You were cock of your gang because others acclaimed you the real thing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The hundreds of thousands read him and acclaimed him with the same brute non-understanding with which they had flung themselves on Brissenden's Ephemera and torn it to pieces—a wolf-rabble that fawned on him instead of fanging him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Martin remembered how that same world-mob, having read him and acclaimed him and not understood him in the least, had, abruptly, a few months later, flung itself upon him and torn him to pieces.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)