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kudos

UK/ˈk(j)uː.dɒs//ˈkuˌdoʊz/

kudos noun: praise; accolades. Also the plural of kudo.

Noun

kudos (uncountable)

  1. Praise; accolades.
    • The talented, young playwright received much kudos for his new drama.
    • I gave Chelsea much kudos for the birth of her first daughter.
    Synonyms:
    props
  2. Credit for one's achievements.
    • Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

Interjection

  1. An interjection indicating praise or approval or as an acknowledgement of a laudable achievement.

Verb

kudos (third-person singular simple present kudoses, present participle kudosing, simple past and past participle kudosed)

  1. (informal) To give praise or accolades.
    • You know and I know that Dr. Tinsley likes a bit of kudosing every now and then. I think it would be well if we seriously considered some kind of honorable mention for him at the Conference.2018, Margaret Edds, We Face the Dawn

Proper noun capitalized: Kudos

Kudos

  1. (plural) plural of Kudo

Also used as

kudos is also the plural of kudo.

kudos is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of kudo.

kudos meaning in Bengali, Kannada, Gujarati and Odia

kudos in Bengali

কুডোস

kudos in Kannada

ಕುಡೋಸ್, ಕುಡೋಸ್ಗೆ

kudos in Gujarati

કુડોસ

kudos in Odia

କୁଡୋସ୍
More languagesFewer languages
kudos in Nepali
कुडोसिङ

Examples of kudos in a sentence

  • But it will bring you no kudos—the case against him will be dismissed at once!1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles:
  • So while recording or sampling a Charlie Manson track […] makes for shock rock kudos aplenty, a devotion to Hubbard is kryptonite for credibility.2006 March 25, Jonathan Leggett, “Cult musicians”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2025:
  • Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Pat, I gotta tell you, you did a lot of things right with this lunch―kudos.2011 Allen Gregory, "1 Night in Gottlieb" (season 1, episode 2)
  • And… and to that… to that Turkish horse, I say this, “You should not step on people’s balls, but, in this solitary instance, kudos, horse, kudos.”2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “The Lottery”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 24, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros....

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Synonyms of kudos

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Forms of kudos

third-person singular presentkudoses
present participlekudosing
past participlekudosed
pastkudosed

Origin of kudos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos, “praise, renown”).

Questions about kudos

What does kudos mean?
Kudos means praise; accolades.
What is kudos in Bengali?
Kudos in Bengali is কুডোস. See Kudos meaning in Bengali.
How do you use kudos in a sentence?
But it will bring you no kudos—the case against him will be dismissed at once!
What part of speech is kudos?
Kudos can be a noun, an interjection, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce kudos?
Kudos is pronounced /ˈk(j)uː.dɒs/ (UK).

Words near kudos in the dictionary

  1. kudoed
  2. kudoing
  3. kudologist
  4. kudologists
  5. kudology
  6. kudos
  7. kudosed
  8. kudoses
  9. kudosing
  10. kudriavite
  11. Kudrna

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kudos (page history and authors); Kudos (page history and authors); kudos (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kudos (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kudos (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kudos (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kudos (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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