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éloge

éloge is the alternative form of eloge.

Meaning of eloge

Noun

eloge (plural eloges)

  1. (obsolete) An expression of praise.
  2. A statement or disquisition in praise of someone who has died.
    • In a later éloge, Georges Cuvier called it, with pardonable exaggeration, ‘in some respects the last words of a dying Plato’.2008, Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder, HarperPress, published 2009, page 430
  3. Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.

Forms of éloge

pluraléloges

Questions about éloge

What is éloge the alternative form of?
Éloge is the alternative form of eloge.

Words near éloge in the dictionary

  1. éliteness
  2. élites
  3. élitism
  4. élitist
  5. élitists
  6. éloge
  7. éloges
  8. Élysée
  9. élégante
  10. élégantes
  11. émeute

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Adapted from Wiktionary: éloge (page history and authors); eloge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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