Associations to the word «Acclaim»

Wiktionary

ACCLAIM, verb. (archaic) (transitive) To shout; to call out.
ACCLAIM, verb. (intransitive) To shout approval; to express great approval.
ACCLAIM, verb. (transitive) (rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
ACCLAIM, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To claim.
ACCLAIM, verb. (transitive) To declare by acclamations.
ACCLAIM, verb. (Canada) (politics) To elect to an office by having no opposition.
ACCLAIM, noun. (poetic) An acclamation; a shout of applause.
ACCLAIM, noun. (obsolete) A claim.

Dictionary definition

ACCLAIM, noun. Enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim"; "he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him more eclat than he really deserved".
ACCLAIM, verb. Praise vociferously; "The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein".
ACCLAIM, verb. Clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin