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gratulations

gratulations is the plural of gratulation.

Meaning of gratulation

Noun

gratulation (countable and uncountable, plural gratulations)

  1. (archaic) A feeling of happiness and satisfaction; joy, especially at one's good fortune.
    • Shattuck, all unaccustomed to the practical phenomena of digging, apprehended only cause of gratulation that the investigation was to be the less hindered.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 206
  2. (archaic) The expression of pleasure at someone else's success or luck; congratulation.
    • all Heav’n, And happie Constellations on that houre / Shed thir selectest influence;
      the Earth Gave sign of gratulation1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Questions about gratulations

What is gratulations the plural of?
Gratulations is the plural of gratulation.

Words near gratulations in the dictionary

  1. gratulate
  2. gratulated
  3. gratulates
  4. gratulating
  5. gratulation
  6. gratulations
  7. gratulatorily
  8. gratulatory
  9. gratz
  10. Grau
  11. Graubünden

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