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laud

UK/lɔːd/

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Australia/loːd/

laud noun: glorification or praise.

Noun

laud (countable and uncountable, plural lauds)

  1. Glorification or praise.
    • So doo vvell and thou ſhalt have laude of the ſame (that is to ſaye of the ruler) […]1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “The Obedience of Subiectes vnto Kynges Princes and Rulers. The .XIIJ. Chapter of Paul Rom.”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]...
    • Laud be to Godc. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...
  2. Hymn of praise.
  3. (in plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.
    Synonyms:
    ainoi

Verb

laud (third-person singular simple present lauds, present participle lauding, simple past and past participle lauded)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To praise; to glorify.
    • And hys mought was opened immediatly / and hys tonge / and he ſpake lawdynge god.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke j:[64], folio lxxiij, verso
    • The most recognised and lauded dictionary of Indian English today is Yule and Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms; Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, first published in 1886 and updated by William Crooke in 1903.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 485

Proper noun capitalized: Laud

Laud

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Whitley County, Indiana, United States.

laud meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

laud in Hindi

praise or glorification
प्रशंसा praśansā, स्तुति stuti
hymn of praise
स्तुति stuti
to praise, to glorify
प्रशंसा करना praśansā karnā

laud in Tamil

பாராட்டு, புகழ்

laud in Urdu

مداح کرنا, سراہنا, تعریف کرنا

laud in Telugu

to praise, to glorify
మెచ్చుకొను meccukonu
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laud in Malayalam
സ്തുതിക്കുക, വാഴ്ത്തുക, പുകഴ്ത്തുക, കീർത്തിക്കുക
laud in Kannada
ಹೊಗಳು
laud in Sanskrit
स्तौति stauti, ईडयति īḍayati
laud in Vietnamese
khen ngợi

Examples of laud in a sentence

  • On one hand, cool bars and star mixologists are lauded and awarded as never before.
  • We know our place (exactly), and we’re more than happy to laud it over the Hallamites.
  • Once lauded, then despised, then, at least in Bryant's case, lauded again, both manifested signs of regression.

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Synonyms of laud

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Forms of laud

Noun
plurallauds
Verb
third-person singular presentlauds
present participlelauding
past participlelauded
pastlauded

Plural of laud: lauds

Origin of laud

Inherited from Middle English lauden, from Old French lauder, from Latin laudō, laudāre, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh₁wdʰ- (“song, sound”). Cognate with Old English lēoþ (“song, poem”), German Lied (“song”). Doublet of leed.

Words formed from laud

Words that rhyme with laud

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Questions about laud

What does laud mean?
Laud means glorification or praise.
What is laud in Hindi?
Laud in Hindi is प्रशंसा (praśansā), स्तुति (stuti), प्रशंसा करना (praśansā karnā). See Laud meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is laud?
Laud can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce laud?
Laud is pronounced /lɔːd/ (UK).
What is the plural of laud?
The plural of laud is lauds.

Words near laud in the dictionary

  1. Laubscher
  2. Laubschers
  3. lauburu
  4. Lauck
  5. Laucks
  6. laud
  7. Lauda
  8. laudability
  9. laudable
  10. laudableness
  11. laudably

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laud (page history and authors); Laud (page history and authors); laud (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); laud (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); laud (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); laud (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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