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vivat

UK/ˈviːˌvæt/US/ˈviˌvɑt/

vivat interjection: a cry wishing someone long life and prosperity.

Interjection

vivat

  1. A cry wishing someone long life and prosperity.
    • The magistrates were mobbed by vivat-yelling crowds, some 10,000 of whom made their way to the Bastille where they clamoured for Rohan's release.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 338

Noun

vivat (plural vivats)

  1. An utterance of the interjection vivat.
    • The King swears; and now be the welkin split with vivats[.]1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter XII, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 63

vivat meaning in Tamil

vivat in Tamil

நீடு வாழ்க என்னும் வாழ்த்தொலி

Forms of vivat

pluralvivats

Origin of vivat

From Latin vīvat (literally “may s/he live”).

Questions about vivat

What does vivat mean?
Vivat means a cry wishing someone long life and prosperity.
What is vivat in Tamil?
Vivat in Tamil is நீடு வாழ்க என்னும் வாழ்த்தொலி. See Vivat meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vivat?
Vivat can be an interjection or a noun.
How do you pronounce vivat?
Vivat is pronounced /ˈviːˌvæt/ (UK).

Words near vivat in the dictionary

  1. Vivars
  2. vivarta
  3. vivartas
  4. vivary
  5. vivas
  6. vivat
  7. Vivation
  8. vivats
  9. vivax
  10. vivax malaria
  11. vivaxes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vivat (page history and authors); vivat (Tamil 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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