ACCLAMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acclamation mean? 

• ACCLAMATION (noun)
  The noun ACCLAMATION has 1 sense:

1. enthusiastic approval

  Familiarity information: ACCLAMATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCLAMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enthusiastic approval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

acclaim; acclamation; eclat; plaudit; plaudits

Context example:

they gave him more eclat than he really deserved

Hypernyms ("acclamation" is a kind of...):

approval; commendation (a message expressing a favorable opinion)

Derivation:

acclaim (praise vociferously)

 Context examples 

As we drove up a buzz of greeting came from the people upon the fringe which was nearest to us, spreading and spreading, until the whole multitude had joined in the acclamation.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had caught their interest, and the audience urged the chairman by acclamation to extend Martin's time.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A roar of acclamation greeted the four adventurers as they appeared, high above the heads of the people, under the vivid electric lamps outside the hall.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have looked, a little shrinking creature, at that door, until the owners of all the names—there were five-and-forty of them in the school then, Mr. Mell said—seemed to send me to Coventry by general acclamation, and to cry out, each in his own way, Take care of him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They hailed Brissenden and his demijohns with acclamation, and, on being introduced, Martin learned they were Andy and Parry.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)