HURRAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hurrah mean? 

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

1. a victory cheer

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

• HURRAH (verb)
  The verb HURRAH has 1 sense:

1. shout 'hurrah!'

  Familiarity information: HURRAH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HURRAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A victory cheer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

hooray; hurrah

Context example:

let's give the team a big hurrah

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

cheer (a cry or shout of approval)

• HURRAH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shout 'hurrah!'

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

call; cry; holler; hollo; scream; shout; shout out; squall; yell (utter a sudden loud cry)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our sun.

(Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star, NASA)

“It ain't that she's not as pretty as ever, for she's prettier—I do assure you, she is prettier. It ain't that she don't work as well as ever, for she does. She WAS worth any six, and she IS worth any six. But somehow she wants heart. If you understand,” said Mr. Omer, after rubbing his chin again, and smoking a little, “what I mean in a general way by the expression, “A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull altogether, my hearties, hurrah!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune; one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Hurrah for Miss March, the celebrated American authoress! cried Laurie, throwing up his hat and catching it again, to the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens, and half a dozen Irish children, for they were out of the city now.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)