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noun
A victory ceremony of less importance than a triumph.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ancient-Rome
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noun
A (ceremony for the) recognition of some achievement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
Prolonged enthusiastic applause.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: booing, jeering, hissing
noun
The act of laying eggs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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verb
To give (someone) an ovation (prolonged enthusiastic applause).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, informal, rare
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Synonyms: ovate
Antonyms: none provided
noun
enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: standing ovation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: recognition, credit
History
Etymology tree Latin ovō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin ovātiōnemlbor. English ovation Learned borrowing from Latin ovātiōnem.
From Late Latin ovatio (“egg-laying”) + English -ion (suffix indicating an action or process, or the result of an action or process). Ovatio is derived from ovāre (“to lay eggs”), from Latin ōvum (“egg”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h2ew- (“dress; to be dressed, clothe oneself”)) + -āre.
Across languages
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