exclamation

noun
/ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃn̩/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclāmātiō, from exclāmō (“to cry out”) + -tiō.

  1. derived from exclāmātiō
  2. borrowed from exclamation

Definitions

  1. A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.

  2. A word expressing outcry

    A word expressing outcry; an interjection.

  3. An exclamation mark.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exclamation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at exclamation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at exclamation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA