Word Meanings - GRATULATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of gratulating or felicitating; congratulation. I shall turn my wishes into gratulations. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRATULATION)

• Acclamation
• Applause
• homage
• gratulation
• salutation
• joy
• commendation
• plaudit
• hosannas
• cheer
• shouting
• exultation
• triumph
• approval

Related words: (words related to GRATULATION)

• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• ACCLAMATION
  A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy. Acclamation medals are those on which laudatory acclamations are recorded. Elmes. (more info) 1. A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• CHEERINGLY
  In a manner to cheer or encourage.
• TRIUMPHANTLY
  In a triumphant manner.
• CHEERER
  One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
• PLAUDITORY
  Applauding; commending.
• COMMENDATION
  A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting. Hark you, Margaret; No princely commendations to my king Shak. (more info) 1. The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation. Need we . . . epistles of
• SHOUT
  1. To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name. 2. To treat with shouts or clamor. Bp. Hall.
• GRATULATION
  The act of gratulating or felicitating; congratulation. I shall turn my wishes into gratulations. South.
• CHEERFULNESS
  Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
• HOMAGE
  A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign. 2. Respect or reverential
• PLAUDIT
  A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. Longfellow. Syn. -- Acclamation; applause; encomium; commendation; approbation; approval. (more info) players at the end of a performance), 2d pers.
• TRIUMPH
  A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy. Note: The general was allowed to enter the city crowned with a wreath of laurel, bearing a scepter in one hand,
• CHEERLESS
  Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n. My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. Spenser. Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
• APPROVAL
  Approbation; sanction. A censor . . . without whose approval nTemple. Syn. -- See Approbation.
• APPLAUSE
  The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation. The brave man seeks not popular applause. Dryden. Syn. -- Acclaim;
• TRIUMPHANT
  1. Rejoicing for victory; triumphing; exultant. Successful beyond hope to lead ye forth Triumphant out of this infernal pit. Milton. 2. Celebrating victory; expressive of joy for success; as, a triumphant song or ode. 3. Graced with conquest;
• CHEER
  chère, fr. LL. cara face, Gr. , L. cerebrum brain, G. hirn, and E. 1. The face; the countenance or its expression. "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif. 2. Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart. Be of good cheer. Matt. ix. 2. The parents . . . fled
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• SELF-APPLAUSE
  Applause of one's self.
• WASHOUT
  The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
• NEISHOUT
  The mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.
• BELLYCHEER
  Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.
• UNSHOUT
  To recall what is done by shouting. Shak.