exclamation

English

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

exclamation (plural exclamations)

1. A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
2. A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
3. A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; – also called an exclamation point.

Derived terms

• exclamation mark
• exclamation point

Related terms

• exclaim
• exclamatory

Translations

loud calling or crying out; outcry

Bulgarian: възклицание (bg) n. Czech: zvolání (cs) n. Finnish: huudahdus (fi), parahdus (fi) Greek: επιφώνημα (el) (epifónima) n., αναφώνηση (el) (anafónisi) f.

Italian: esclamazione (it) f. Malay: Jeritan (ms) Swedish: utrop (sv) n.

word expressing outcry

Bulgarian: възклицание (bg) n. Finnish: huudahdus (fi) Greek: επιφώνημα (el) (epifónima) n.

Italian: esclamazione (it) f. Swedish: interjektion (sv) c.

mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked

Bulgarian: удивителна (bg) f. Greek: θαυμαστικό (el) (thavmastikó) n.

Italian: punto esclamativo (it) m. Swedish: utropstecken (sv) n.

External links

• exclamation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• exclamation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• Coatlán Mixe

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French

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Noun

exclamation f. (plural exclamations)

1. exclamation (cry of joy)

Derived terms

• point d'exclamation