laudation
/lɔːˈdeɪ.ʃən/
laudation noun: the act of lauding; high praise or commendation.
Noun
laudation (countable and uncountable, plural laudations)
- The act of lauding; high praise or commendation.
- […] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]1857, London Quarterly Review, volume 7, page 498
- We know that the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians had already used the responsive form, notably form A (refrain), in their laudations and supplications.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 21
laudation meaning in Bengali and Malayalam
laudation in Bengali
- প্রশংসা করার কাজ, উচ্চ প্রশংসা, গুণগান
laudation in Malayalam
- acclaim, praise, honour
- സ്തുതി, പ്രശംസ, നവം, നവ്യം, സ്തവനം, വാഴ്ത്തൽ
Forms of laudation
| plural | laudations |
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Origin of laudation
Borrowed from Latin laudatio; compare Old English taudation. See laud.
Words formed from laudation
Questions about laudation
- What does laudation mean?
- Laudation means the act of lauding; high praise or commendation.
- What is laudation in Bengali?
- Laudation in Bengali is প্রশংসা করার কাজ, উচ্চ প্রশংসা, গুণগান. See Laudation meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is laudation?
- Laudation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce laudation?
- Laudation is pronounced /lɔːˈdeɪ.ʃən/.
- What is the plural of laudation?
- The plural of laudation is laudations.
Words near laudation in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: laudation (page history and authors); laudation (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); laudation (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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