applause

English

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/

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An audience applauds.

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.
   • 1904, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes‎^[1]:

     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. A flush of colour sprang to Holmes's pale cheeks, and he bowed to us like the master dramatist who receives the homage of his audience. It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.

Synonyms

• acclaim, acclamation, approbation, approval, commendation, plaudit

Derived terms

• applauseometer (informal, US)

Translations

act of applauding

• Arabic: تَصْفِيق m (taṣfīq)
• 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: urupakan
• Bulgarian: аплодисме́нти m (aplodisménti)
• Catalan: aplaudiment (ca) m
• Cebuano: palakpak
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼓掌 (zh) (gǔzhǎng), 掌聲／掌声 (zh) (zhǎngshēng), 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: applaudissements (fr) m pl, 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: תשואות f pl (tshu'ot)
• Hiligaynon: palakpak
• Hungarian: taps (hu)
• Indonesian: tepuk tangan (id)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: applauso (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 拍手 (はくしゅ, hakushu)
• Korean: 박수 (ko) (baksu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: applausus m (Late Latin)
• Latvian: aplausi pl
• Lithuanian: plojimai pl, aplodismentai pl
• Macedonian: ракоплескање n (rakopleskanje), аплауз m (aplauz)
• Malay: tepukan
• Maori: pakipaki, umere
• Persian: کف (fa) (kaf)
• Polish: aplauz (pl) m
• Portuguese: aplauso (pt) m
• Romanian: aplauze (ro) f
• Russian: аплодисме́нты (ru) m pl (aplodisménty), рукоплеска́ния (ru) n pl (rukopleskánija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пљесак m, аплауз m

  Roman: pljesak (sh) m, aplauz (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
• Turkish: alkış (tr)
• Ukrainian: аплодисме́нти (uk) m pl (aplodysménty), о́плески m pl (óplesky)
• Uzbek: olqish (uz), olqishlar (uz) pl
• Vietnamese: vỗ tay (vi)
• Waray-Waray: parakpak

See also

• Thesaurus:applause
• Thesaurus:praise

Further reading

• applause on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Participle

(deprecated template usage) applause

1. vocative masculine singular of applausus