ECLAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eclat mean? 

• ECLAT (noun)
  The noun ECLAT has 3 senses:

1. enthusiastic approval

2. ceremonial elegance and splendor

3. brilliant or conspicuous success or effect

  Familiarity information: ECLAT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECLAT (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 ("eclat" is a kind of...):

approval; commendation (a message expressing a favorable opinion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ceremonial elegance and splendor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

eclat; pomp

Context example:

entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses

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

elegance (a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Brilliant or conspicuous success or effect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the eclat of a great achievement

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

brilliance; grandeur; grandness; magnificence; splendor; splendour (the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand)

 Context examples 

The house would close with the greatest eclat.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Here too, Miss Dashwood's commendation, being only simple and just, came in without any eclat.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was a great object to her to escape all enquiry or eclat; but it was her intention to be as decidedly cool to him as might be compatible with their relationship; and to retrace, as quietly as she could, the few steps of unnecessary intimacy she had been gradually led along.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The distressing explanation she had to make to Harriet, and all that poor Harriet would be suffering, with the awkwardness of future meetings, the difficulties of continuing or discontinuing the acquaintance, of subduing feelings, concealing resentment, and avoiding eclat, were enough to occupy her in most unmirthful reflections some time longer, and she went to bed at last with nothing settled but the conviction of her having blundered most dreadfully.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Entirely against his judgment, a scene-painter arrived from town, and was at work, much to the increase of the expenses, and, what was worse, of the eclat of their proceedings; and his brother, instead of being really guided by him as to the privacy of the representation, was giving an invitation to every family who came in his way.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)