admiration

English

Etymology

From French admiration < Latin admīrātiō, from prefix ad- + mīrō (“I look at”) + -ātiō. Compare the verb admire.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˌæd.mɚˈeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

admiration (plural admirations)

1. Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.
2. (obsolete) Wonder or questioning, without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject.
   • Lear: Your name, faire Gentlewoman?
     Gonerill: This admiration Sir, is much o'th' savour
     Of other your new prankes. — William Shakespeare, King Lear, I.ii.

Synonyms

• wonder
• approval
• appreciation
• adoration
• reverence
• worship

Derived terms

• admirative
• admiratively

Translations

adoration; appreciation

• Albanian: admirim (sq)
• Arabic: إعجاب (ar) ('i3jaab) m
• Azeri: valeh olma (az)
• Bulgarian: възхищение (bg) (văzhištenie) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 贊賞 (cmn), 赞赏 (cmn) (zànshǎng), 欽佩 (cmn), 钦佩 (cmn) (qīnpèi), 佩服 (cmn) (pèifu)

• Czech: obdiv (cs) m
• Dutch: bewondering (nl) f
• Esperanto: admiro (eo)
• Estonian: imetlus (et)
• Finnish: ihailu (fi)
• French: admiration (fr) f
• German: Bewunderung (de) f
• Greek: θαυμασμός (el) (thaumasmós) m
• Hebrew: פֶּלֶא (he) (pele) m
• Hungarian: bámulás (hu)
• Italian: ammirazione (it) f
• Japanese: 賞賛 (ja) (しょうさん, shōsan), 感心 (ja) (かんしん, kanshin)
• Korean: 감탄 (ko) (gamtan)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: heyranî (ku) f

• Latin: admiratio (la) f
• Latvian: apbrīna (lv)

• Luxembourgish: Bewonnerung (lb) f
• Mongolian: гайхал (mn) (gajhal)
• Norwegian: beundring (no)
• Papiamentu: atmirashon
• Persian: تحسین (fa) (takhsīn)
• Polish: podziw (pl) m
• Portuguese: admiração (pt) f
• Romanian: admirație (ro) f, admirare (ro) f
• Russian: восхищение (ru) (vosxiščénije) n, восторг (ru) (vostórg) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дивљење (sh) n

  Roman: divljenje (sh) n

• Slovak: obdiv (sk) m
• Spanish: admiración (es) f
• Swahili: abos (sw)
• Swedish: beundran (sv)
• Tagalog: paghanga (tl)
• Thai: การชื่นชม (th) (gaan chêun chom)
• Turkish: hayranlık (tr)
• Ukrainian: захоплення (uk) (zaxóplennja) n
• Vietnamese: sự khâm phục (vi)
• Welsh: edmygedd (cy)
• West Frisian: bewûndering (fy)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admiratio, admirationem.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ad.mi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

Noun

admiration f (plural admirations)

1. admiration

   Plein d’admiration pour son adversaire, chacun lève sa propre visière : "Elsseneur ! ...", "Réginald ! ..." (Les Chants de Maldoror - Chant V) - Full of admiration for his enemy, ...