accolade
Syllables: ac·co·lade/ˈæk.əˌleɪd/
accolade noun: an expression of approval; praise.
Noun
accolade (plural accolades)
- An expression of approval; praise.
- The scientist received the highest accolade in her field for the groundbreaking discovery.
- Winning the championship brought the team immense accolade from sports analysts worldwide.
- Synonyms:
- panegyric
- A special acknowledgment; an award.
- This film is likely to pick up major accolades.
- Rooney led Manchester United up the Wembley steps to collect the FA Cup and add a missing medal to his collection - a richly deserved accolade.2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC
- An embrace of greeting or salutation.
- […] for the tears stood in the old gentleman's eyes, when, having first shaken Edward heartily by the hand in the English fashion, he embraced him a-la-mode Françoise, and kissed him on both sides of the face; while the hardness of his gripe, and the quantity of Scotch snuff which his accolade...1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees...
- A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
- “Rise, Sir Miles Hendon, Knight,” said the King, gravely—giving the accolade with Hendon’s sword—“rise, and seat thyself. Thy petition is granted. Whilst England remains, and the crown continues, the privilege shall not lapse.”1881, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages, Montreal, Que.: Dawson Brothers, →OCLC
- As he had already told him, he said, there was no chapel in the castle, nor was it needed for what remained to be done, for, as he understood the ceremonial of the order, the whole point of being dubbed a knight lay in the accolade and in the slap on the shoulder, and that could be administered in...1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter III, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part I...
- A brace used to join two or more staves.
- A written presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954.
- An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other.
- Synonym of curly bracket.
- Synonyms:
- curly bracket
Verb
accolade (third-person singular simple present accolades, present participle accolading, simple past and past participle accoladed)
- To embrace or kiss in salutation.
- To confer a knighthood on.
- To confer praise or awards on.
- an accoladed novel
accolade meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
accolade in Hindi
- पुरस्कार आदि, शाबाशी, सराहना, आलिंगन, पुरस्कार, अभिवादन में चुम्बन
accolade in Tamil
- விருது, பரிசு, கெளரவம், பாராட்டு, சிறப்பித்தல், புகழ்ந்துரை
accolade in Urdu
- بغل گیری
accolade in Bengali
- প্রশংসা, সম্মাননা
More languagesFewer languages
- accolade in Malayalam
- കഴിവ് അംഗീകരിക്കൽ, പദവി നൽകൽ, അംഗീകാരം, അഭിനന്ദനം
- accolade in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಗೌರವ, ಮೆಚ್ಚುಗೆ
Examples of accolade in a sentence
- Now your accolades should speak for themselves, but I know your type, dog!
- Now that the season is over, it’s time to hand out the accolades.
- The NRA accolade says it all: its soul is back where it truly belongs!
Synonyms of accolade
Forms of accolade
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | accolades |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | accolades |
| present participle | accolading |
| past participle | accoladed |
| past | accoladed |
Origin of accolade
First use appears c. 1591 in the publications of Thomas Lodge, borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, via Vulgar Latin *accollō (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar) + -āta.
Questions about accolade
- What does accolade mean?
- Accolade means an expression of approval; praise.
- What is accolade in Hindi?
- Accolade in Hindi is पुरस्कार आदि, शाबाशी, सराहना. See Accolade meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is accolade?
- Accolade can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce accolade?
- Accolade is pronounced /ˈæk.əˌleɪd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of accolade?
- The plural of accolade is accolades.
Words near accolade in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: accolade (page history and authors); accolade (Hindi Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accolade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accolade (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accolade (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accolade (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accolade (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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