OVATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ovation mean? 

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

1. enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ovation; standing ovation

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

credit; recognition (approval)

Meronyms (parts of "ovation"):

applause; clapping; hand clapping (a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together)

 Context examples 

When quiet had been restored and the audience resumed their seats after the ovation which they had given to the travelers, the chairman, the Duke of Durham, addressed the meeting.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)