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plaudit

noun
/ˈplɔːdɪt/

Etymology

For earlier plaudite, borrowed from Latin plaudite, second-person plural imperative of plaudere (“to applaud”).

  1. borrowed from plaudite

Definitions

  1. A mark or expression of applause

    A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.

    • The plaudits reverberated thunderously in the auditorium.
    • They were very orderly- there were neither scoffs nor plaudits, and when they saw us at the window above them there were many who buried their faces in their arms and wept.

  2. An award or commendation

    An award or commendation; a formal recognition of approval or achievement.

    • Sofie has been showered in plaudits for her paradigm-shifting discoveries.
    • Today, beyond its magnificent courtyard entrance, there is a spa and a plaudit-winning restaurant, Pearl, but Carla remembers: “There were hiccups and we were late opening, but we finally got there on December 16. […]
    • A former Wanaka-based builder has been awarded a plaudit for his education efforts to combine sustainable building designs alongside the carpentry courses he now teaches at the Waikato Institute of Technology.

  3. To issue or confer a plaudit upon.

    • Floris grumpily yammered on about how the actors hardly deserved to be plaudited.
    • Dunces may take degrees, and we have ſeene / Authors and Poets, come forth at foureteene. / The like lucke haunts the Court, he that has wit / To flaſh a line, and friends to plaudite it.
    • Much plaudited by Sir Adrian Cadbury and practised by companies as prestigious as BP, the policy governance model is at once both complex and simple.

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Derived

plauditor, plauditory

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at plaudit. 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.

01plaudit02praise03commendation04commending05commend06acclaim07applaud

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

7 hops · closes at plaudit

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