exclaim
/ɛkˈskleɪm/
exclaim verb: to cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
Verb
exclaim (third-person singular simple present exclaims, present participle exclaiming, simple past and past participle exclaimed)
- To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
- I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,
Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]... - Very grave and good Women exclaimed against Men who begot Children and then disowned them.1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 9, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I, page 33
- I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,
- To say suddenly and with strong emotion.
- Must she be forc’d, t’exclaime th’iniurious wrong?
Offred by him, whom she hath lou’d so long?
Nay, I will tell, and I durst almost sweare,
Edward will blush, when he his fault shall heare.1603, Michael Drayton, “Alice Countesse of Salisburie, to the blacke Prince”, in The Barrons Wars in the Raigne of Edward the Second, London: N. Ling, page 31 - […] her aunt, after having stared at me a good while with a look of amazement, exclaimed, “In the name of heaven! Who art thou?”—1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter 40, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 28
- Must she be forc’d, t’exclaime th’iniurious wrong?
Noun
exclaim (plural exclaims)
- Exclamation; outcry, clamor.
- Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence, and trouble us not;
For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,
Fill’d it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to... - Oh fortune, thou’rt not worth my least exclame [...].1635, John Donne, His parting form her
- Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence, and trouble us not;
exclaim meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam
exclaim in Hindi
- to cry out
- चिल्लाना cillānā
exclaim in Marathi
- to cry out
- उद्गारणे udgārṇe
exclaim in Urdu
- to cry out
- چِلّانا cillānā
exclaim in Malayalam
- ആശ്ചര്യപ്പെടുക
More languagesFewer languages
- exclaim in Kannada
- ಬೆರಗಾಗಿ ಕೂಗು, ಬೊಬ್ಬಿರಿ
- exclaim in Sanskrit
- क्रुश् kruś, क्रोशति króśati
- exclaim in Arabic
- صَاحَ ṣāḥa, صَرَخَ ṣaraḵa
- exclaim in Persian
- بانگ زدن bâng kardan, اعلام کردن e'lâm kardan
- exclaim in Thai
- อุทาน ù-taan
- exclaim in Vietnamese
- kêu lên, la lên, thốt lên
Examples of exclaim in a sentence
- When once it had been read, there was no doing any thing, but lament and exclaim.1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and...
- […] he could remember Sally tearing off a rose, stopping to exclaim at the beauty of the cabbage leaves in the moonlight […]1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1985, page 114:
- […] at the front door below a few guests were leaving, and the bright rectangle widened and narrowed as they slipped out into the night, laughing and exclaiming about the weather.2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, New York: Knopf, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 285:
- Without returning any direct reply, Miss Squeers, all at once, fell into a paroxysm of spiteful tears, and exclaimed that she was a wretched, neglected, miserable castaway.1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 12, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […]...
Forms of exclaim
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | exclaims |
| present participle | exclaiming |
| past participle | exclaimed |
| past | exclaimed |
| alternative form | exclame |
| Noun | |
| plural | exclaims |
Origin of exclaim
From Middle French exclamer, from Latin exclāmō, exclāmāre (“call out”), from ex- + clāmō (“to call”).
Words formed from exclaim
Words that rhyme with exclaim
37 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- reclaim
- same
- blame
- declaim
- disclaim
- squame
- aflame
- came
- defame
- fame
- rame
- ashame
- became
- crame
- mechanical game
- misname
- overcame
- proclaim
- second name
- BAME
- by name
- cyberfame
- deadname
- enflame
- file names
- good game
- hame
- herostratic fame
- maim
- Markush claim
- reclame
- rename
- run game
- sejm
- succame
- two can play this game
- video game
Questions about exclaim
- What does exclaim mean?
- Exclaim means to cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
- What is exclaim in Hindi?
- Exclaim in Hindi is चिल्लाना (cillānā). See Exclaim meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use exclaim in a sentence?
- When once it had been read, there was no doing any thing, but lament and exclaim.
- What part of speech is exclaim?
- Exclaim can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce exclaim?
- Exclaim is pronounced /ɛkˈskleɪm/.
- What is the past tense of exclaim?
- The past tense of exclaim is exclaimed.
Words near exclaim in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: exclaim (page history and authors); exclaim (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exclaim (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); क्रुश् (Sanskrit) (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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