applause

See also: Applause

English

An audience applauds.

Etymology

From Latin applausus, from applaudō (“I strike against, I applaud”) (whence applaud).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: əplôzʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈplɔːz/
• Rhymes: -ɔːz
• (US) enPR: əplôzʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈplɔz/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: əpläz', IPA^(key): /əˈplɑz/

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

applause (usually uncountable, plural applauses)

1. The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.

   Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, approbation, approval, commendation, plaudit; see also Thesaurus:applause, Thesaurus:praise

   • 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XLVI, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 535:

     A few days before, the adulations and applauses of a nation were sounding in her [Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma's] ears, and now she was come to this!

   • 1904 April 30, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC, page 232:

     Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play. […] It was at such moments that for an instant he [Sherlock Holmes] ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause.

   • 1916, Albert Bigelow Paine, chapter 57, in The Boys’ Life of Mark Twain:

     Livy never gets her share of those applauses, but it is because the people do not know. Yet she is entitled to the lion's share.

   • 2024 September 7, David Hytner, “Rice and Grealish start new England era with Nations League victory in Ireland”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Rice’s celebrations upon his goal were controlled, muted. Not so those of Grealish, who lapped up the applause of the England fans behind the goal.

Derived terms

• applausable
• applauseful
• applauseless
• applauselike
• applauseometer (informal, US)
• applause-worthy
• round of applause

 

Translations

act of applauding

• Albanian: duartrokitje (sq) f
• Arabic: تَصْفِيق m (taṣfīq)

  Hijazi Arabic: تَصْفِيق m (taṣfīg)

• Armenian: ծափահարություն (hy) (capʻaharutʻyun)
• Asturian: aplausu m
• Azerbaijani: alqış (az)
• Bashkir: алҡыш (alqış), ҡул сабыу (qul sabıw)
• Basque: txalo
• Belarusian: апладысме́нты m pl (apladysmjénty), во́плескі m pl (vópljeski)
• Bikol Central: parakpak, parakpakan
• Bulgarian: аплодисме́нти m (aplodisménti), ръкопля́скане n (rǎkopljáskane)
• Catalan: aplaudiment (ca) m
• Cebuano: palakpak
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼓掌 (zh) (gǔzhǎng), 掌聲／掌声 (zh) (zhǎngshēng), 拍手 (zh) (pāishǒu)

• Czech: potlesk m, aplaus (cs) m
• Danish: bifald (da) n
• Dutch: applaus (nl), handgeklap (nl) n
• Esperanto: aplaŭdo, aplaŭdado
• Estonian: aplaus (et)
• Finnish: taputtaminen (fi), suosionosoitus, aplodit (fi) pl
• French: applaudissement (fr) m, acclamation (fr) f
• Galician: aplauso (gl) m
• Georgian: ტაში (ṭaši)
• German: Applaus (de) m, Beifall (de) m
• Greek: χειροκρότημα (el) n (cheirokrótima)

  Ancient: κρότος m (krótos)

• Hebrew: תְּשׁוּאוֹת f pl (tshuót)
• Hiligaynon: palakpak
• Hindi: वाहवाही (hi) f (vāhvāhī), शाबाशी (hi) f (śābāśī), ताली (hi) f (tālī)
• Hungarian: taps (hu)
• Icelandic: klapp (is) n
• Indonesian: tepuk tangan (id)
• Italian: applauso (it) m
• Japanese: 拍手 (ja) (はくしゅ, hakushu)
• Kazakh: қол соғу (qol soğu), қол шапалақтау (qol şapalaqtau)
• Korean: 박수(拍手) (ko) (baksu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چەپڵە (çeplle)

• Kyrgyz: кол чабуулар pl (kol cabuular)
• Latin: applausus m (Late Latin)
• Latvian: aplausi pl
• Lithuanian: plojimai pl, aplodismentai pl
• Macedonian: ракоплескање n (rakopleskanje), аплауз m (aplauz)
• Malay: tepukan (ms)
• Maori: pakipaki, umere
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: алга ташилт (alga tašilt)

• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: bifall n, applaus m

• Persian: کف (fa) (kaf)
• Polish: aplauz (pl) m, poklask (pl) m, oklaski (pl) m pl, brawa (pl) n pl
• Portuguese: aplauso (pt) m
• Romanian: aplauze (ro) f
• Russian: аплодисме́нты (ru) m pl (aplodisménty), рукоплеска́ния (ru) n pl (rukopleskánija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пље̑сак m, а̀плауз m

  Roman: pljȇsak (sh) m, àplauz (sh) m

• Slovak: potlesk m, aplauz (sk) m
• Slovene: aplavz m, ploskanje n
• Spanish: aplauso (es) m
• Swedish: applåd (sv) c, bifall (sv) n
• Tagalog: palakpak (tl), palakpakan
• Tajik: чапакзанӣ (čapakzani), кафкӯбӣ (kafkübi), қарсакзанӣ (qarsakzani), кафзанӣ (kafzani)
• Tatar: алкыш (tt) (alkış), алкышлар (tt) pl (alkışlar)
• Turkish: alkış (tr)
• Ukrainian: аплодисме́нти (uk) m pl (aplodysménty), о́плески m pl (óplesky)
• Uzbek: olqish (uz), olqishlar (uz) pl, qarsaklar (uz) pl
• Vietnamese: vỗ tay (vi)
• Waray-Waray: parakpak

Further reading

• applause on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /apˈplau̯.se/, [äpˈpɫ̪äu̯s̠ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /apˈplau̯.se/, [äpˈpläːu̯se]

Participle

applause

1. vocative masculine singular of applausus