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accolading

accolading is the present participle and gerund of accolade.

Meaning of accolade

Verb

accolade (third-person singular simple present accolades, present participle accolading, simple past and past participle accoladed)

  1. (transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
  2. (historical, transitive) To confer a knighthood on.
  3. (transitive) To confer praise or awards on.
    • an accoladed novel

See all 11 meanings of accolade

Questions about accolading

What is accolading the present participle and gerund of?
Accolading is the present participle and gerund of accolade.

Words near accolading in the dictionary

  1. accoasts
  2. accoied
  3. accolade
  4. accoladed
  5. accolades
  6. accolading
  7. accolated
  8. accolee
  9. accolent
  10. accolents
  11. accoll

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accolading (page history and authors); accolade (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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