acclaim
IPA: ʌkɫˈeɪm
noun
- (poetic) An acclamation; a shout of applause.
- (obsolete) A claim.
verb
- (archaic, transitive) To shout; to call out.
- (transitive) To express great approval (for).
- (transitive, rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
- (transitive, obsolete) To claim.
- (transitive) To declare by acclamations.
- (Canada, politics) To elect (a politician, etc.) to an office automatically because no other candidates run; elect by acclamation.
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Examples of "acclaim" in Sentences
- The citizens acclaimed the king.
- The group toured the nation to great acclaim.
- He was acclaimed to be the bravest of the braves.
- The album received critical acclaim in The Netherlands.
- The title score of the movie received critical acclaim.
- The film was critically acclaimed and fondly remembered today.
- He is also the director of the critically acclaimed Malleswari.
- Professional and acclaimed cookery writers concur with the OED.
- The two movies earned the acclaim of critics, but not the public.
- The results brought The KLF international recognition and acclaim.
- What heil first and foremost attempts to acclaim is the power of language to acclaim.
- But based on acclaim from a few of my trusted peers for the way it handles these very issues, I picked up CoD4 recently.
- But Davis, whose food won acclaim, is now returning to the Seattle area to join the team that operates the Purple Cafe & Wine Bar and other ventures.
- While MIÉVILLE doesn't recall his past harsh criticism of TOLKIEN, he nevertheless tempers and balances it out by complimenting the Professor and giving him acclaim, where acclaim is due.
- GEORGE PEMBA, "Garden of Eden," 1949, Estimate: $4,300 to $7,200 One of the first black artists to win acclaim in South Africa, George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba is revered for his images of township life under apartheid.
- "What makes this book so worthy of acclaim is the way it immerses the reader in the life and mindset of a gifted yet mentally ill teenager," proclaimed Walter M. Mayes, a middle school librarian and one of the members of the award committee.
- Now the Gotham Chamber Opera, which performed Haydn's Il mondo della luna in January to great acclaim, is taking a crack at the wily feline -- staging the opera El gato con botas by Spanish composer Xavier Montsalvatge with Tectonic Theater Project.
- Erik Friedlander brings an amazingly rich one-man show to the table, and has won hefty chunk of acclaim from the likes of the previously posted Clogs (plays cello on their album Stick Music), John Vanderslice (Friedlander appears all over Pixel Revolt), and John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats.