exclamation

English

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exclamation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclamatio, from ex (“out”) + clamare (“I cry out”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

exclamation (countable and uncountable, plural exclamations)

1. A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
2. A word expressing outcry; an interjection
3. A clause type used to make an exclamatory statement: What a mess they made!; How stupid I was!
4. The sign "!" by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked.

Synonyms

• (punctuation “!”): exclamation mark, exclamation point

Derived terms

• exclamation mark, exclamation point

Translations

loud calling or crying out; outcry

• Belarusian: вы́гук m (výhuk)
• Bulgarian: възклицание (bg) n (vǎzklicanie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 叫喊 (zh) (jiàohǎn), 感嘆／感叹 (zh) (gǎntàn), 感叹 (zh) (gǎntàn)

• Czech: zvolání (cs) n
• Dutch: uitroep (nl) m
• Finnish: huudahdus (fi), parahdus (fi)
• French: exclamation (fr) f
• Galician: exclamación (gl) f
• German: Ausruf (de) m
• Greek: επιφώνημα (el) n (epifónima), αναφώνηση (el) f (anafónisi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: esclamazione (it) f
• Latin: exclāmātiō f
• Malay: jeritan
• Polish: okrzyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: exclamação (pt) f
• Romanian: exclamare (ro) f, exclamație (ro) f
• Russian: восклица́ние (ru) n (vosklicánije)
• Spanish: exclamación (es) f
• Swedish: utrop (sv) n
• Tagalog: bulalas
• Ukrainian: ви́гук (uk) m (výhuk)

word expressing outcry

• Bulgarian: възклицание (bg) n (vǎzklicanie)
• Dutch: uitroep (nl) m
• Finnish: huudahdus (fi)
• German: Exklamation (de)
• Greek: επιφώνημα (el) n (epifónima)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: esclamazione (it) f
• Maori: tūhau
• Russian: восклица́ние (ru) n (vosklicánije)
• Swedish: interjektion (sv) c

exclamation mark — see exclamation mark

Further reading

• “exclamation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “exclamation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Coatlán Mixe

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exclamatio, exclamationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.skla.ma.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

exclamation f (plural exclamations)

1. exclamation (cry of joy)

Derived terms

• point d’exclamation

Related terms

• exclamer

Further reading

• “exclamation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.