exclamation

Language

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

exclamation

Etymology

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#EXCLAMATION Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kelh₁-#EXCLAMATION

Borrowed from Middle French Category:English terms borrowed from Middle French#EXCLAMATION Category:English terms derived from Middle French#EXCLAMATION exclamation, from Latin Category:English terms derived from Latin#EXCLAMATION exclāmātiō, from exclāmō (“to cry out”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃn̩/Category:English 4-syllable words#EXCLAMATION Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#EXCLAMATION
Audio (General American): (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#EXCLAMATION
Audio (US): (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#EXCLAMATION
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Category:Rhymes:English/eɪʃən#EXCLAMATION Category:Rhymes:English/eɪʃən/4 syllables#EXCLAMATION

Noun

exclamation (countable and uncountable, plural exclamations)Category:English lemmas#EXCLAMATION Category:English nouns#EXCLAMATION Category:English uncountable nouns#EXCLAMATION Category:English countable nouns#EXCLAMATION Category:English countable nouns#EXCLAMATION Category:English entries with incorrect language header#EXCLAMATION Category:Pages with entries#EXCLAMATION Category:Pages with 2 entries#EXCLAMATION

A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 45:
  "And now, my dearest Lucy, collect yourself, for all depends upon our own resources." Such were the whispered exclamations with which Francesca cheered her trembling companion, whose courage was not heightened by the darkness and stillness around them as they proceeded on their hazardous enterprise.
  Category:English terms with quotations#EXCLAMATION
A word expressing outcry; an interjection.
An exclamation mark.
Synonym: exclamation point

Derived terms

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kelh₁- (0 c, 53 e)

Translations

loud calling or crying out; outcry

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Arabic: صِيَاح m (ṣiyāḥ)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#EXCLAMATION, صُرَاخ m (ṣurāḵ)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#EXCLAMATION, هَاتِف (ar) m (hātif)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#EXCLAMATION, هَتْفَة f (hatfa)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#EXCLAMATION
Armenian: բացականչություն (hy) (bacʻakančʻutʻyun)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#EXCLAMATION
Azerbaijani: nida (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#EXCLAMATION
Belarusian: вы́гук m (výhuk)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#EXCLAMATION, во́кліч m (vóklič)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#EXCLAMATION
Bulgarian: възклица́ние (bg) n (vǎzklicánie)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#EXCLAMATION
Chinese:
Mandarin: 叫喊 (zh) (jiàohǎn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#EXCLAMATION Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#EXCLAMATION, 感嘆 / 感叹 (zh) (gǎntàn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#EXCLAMATION Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#EXCLAMATION
Czech: zvolání (cs) nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#EXCLAMATION, výkřik (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#EXCLAMATION
Danish: udråb nCategory:Terms with Danish translations#EXCLAMATION
Dutch: uitroep (nl) mCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#EXCLAMATION
Estonian: hüüatusCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#EXCLAMATION
Finnish: huudahdus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#EXCLAMATION, parahdus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#EXCLAMATION
French: exclamation (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#EXCLAMATION
Galician: exclamación (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#EXCLAMATION
Georgian: წამოძახილი (c̣amoʒaxili)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#EXCLAMATION, შეძახილი (šeʒaxili)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#EXCLAMATION
German: Ausruf (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#EXCLAMATION
Greek: επιφώνημα (el) n (epifónima)Category:Terms with Greek translations#EXCLAMATION, αναφώνηση (el) f (anafónisi)Category:Terms with Greek translations#EXCLAMATION
Italian: esclamazione (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#EXCLAMATION
Japanese: 叫び (ja) (さけび, sakebi)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#EXCLAMATION
Kazakh: леп (lep)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#EXCLAMATION, лептеу (lepteu)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#EXCLAMATION, саңқылдау (sañqyldau)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#EXCLAMATION
Korean: 외침 (ko) (oechim)Category:Terms with Korean translations#EXCLAMATION
Latin: exclāmātiō fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#EXCLAMATION
Latvian: iekliegšanās fCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#EXCLAMATION
Lithuanian: sušukimas mCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#EXCLAMATION
Macedonian: извик m (izvik)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#EXCLAMATION
Malay: jeritan (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#EXCLAMATION
Norwegian:
Bokmål: utrop nCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#EXCLAMATION
Polish: okrzyk (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#EXCLAMATION, wykrzyk mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#EXCLAMATION
Portuguese: exclamação (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#EXCLAMATION
Romanian: exclamare (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#EXCLAMATION, exclamație (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#EXCLAMATION
Russian: восклица́ние (ru) n (vosklicánije)Category:Terms with Russian translations#EXCLAMATION, во́зглас (ru) m (vózglas)Category:Terms with Russian translations#EXCLAMATION, вы́крик (ru) m (výkrik)Category:Terms with Russian translations#EXCLAMATION, вскрик (ru) m (vskrik)Category:Terms with Russian translations#EXCLAMATION
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: у̏звӣк mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#EXCLAMATION

Latin: ȕzvīk (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#EXCLAMATION
Slovak: zvolanie nCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#EXCLAMATION, výkrik mCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#EXCLAMATION
Slovene: vzklik (sl) mCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#EXCLAMATION
Spanish: exclamación (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#EXCLAMATION
Swedish: utrop (sv) nCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#EXCLAMATION
Tagalog: bulalasCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#EXCLAMATION
Tajik: нидо (tg) (nido)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#EXCLAMATION, хитоб (xitob)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#EXCLAMATION
Turkish: ünlem (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#EXCLAMATION, haykırış (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#EXCLAMATION
Ukrainian: ви́гук (uk) m (výhuk)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#EXCLAMATION, о́крик (uk) m (ókryk)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#EXCLAMATION, о́клик (uk) m (óklyk)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#EXCLAMATION
Uzbek: xitob (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#EXCLAMATION, nido (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#EXCLAMATION, undov (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#EXCLAMATION

word expressing outcry

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Bulgarian: възклица́ние (bg) n (vǎzklicánie)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#EXCLAMATION
Dutch: uitroep (nl) mCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#EXCLAMATION
Finnish: huudahdus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#EXCLAMATION
German: Exklamation (de)Category:Terms with German translations#EXCLAMATION
Greek: επιφώνημα (el) n (epifónima)Category:Terms with Greek translations#EXCLAMATION
Italian: esclamazione (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#EXCLAMATION
Māori: tūhauCategory:Terms with Māori translations#EXCLAMATION
Russian: восклица́ние (ru) n (vosklicánije)Category:Terms with Russian translations#EXCLAMATION
Swedish: interjektion (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#EXCLAMATION
Welsh: ebychiad (cy) mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#EXCLAMATION

part of speech

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Polish: wykrzyknik (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#EXCLAMATION

exclamation mark — see exclamation mark

Further reading

“exclamation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “exclamation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

Coatlán Mixe

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

exclamation

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Category:French terms borrowed from Latin#EXCLAMATION Category:French terms derived from Latin#EXCLAMATION exclamātiōnem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛk.skla.ma.sjɔ̃/Category:French 4-syllable words#EXCLAMATION Category:French terms with IPA pronunciation#EXCLAMATION
Audio: (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#EXCLAMATION
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#EXCLAMATION
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#EXCLAMATION

Noun

exclamation f (plural exclamations)Category:French lemmas#EXCLAMATION Category:French nouns#EXCLAMATION Category:French countable nouns#EXCLAMATION Category:French entries with incorrect language header#EXCLAMATION Category:French feminine nouns#EXCLAMATION Category:Pages with entries#EXCLAMATION Category:Pages with 2 entries#EXCLAMATION

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

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