acclaim
verb/əˈkleɪm/
/əˈkleɪm/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they acclaim | /əˈkleɪm/ /əˈkleɪm/ |
| he / she / it acclaims | /əˈkleɪmz/ /əˈkleɪmz/ |
| past simple acclaimed | /əˈkleɪmd/ /əˈkleɪmd/ |
| past participle acclaimed | /əˈkleɪmd/ /əˈkleɪmd/ |
| -ing form acclaiming | /əˈkleɪmɪŋ/ /əˈkleɪmɪŋ/ |
- to praise or welcome somebody/something publicly
- be acclaimed (as something) The work was acclaimed as a masterpiece.
- This book has been widely acclaimed as a modern classic.
- a highly/widely acclaimed performance
- Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed novelist
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryphrases- be critically acclaimed
- be highly acclaimed
- be internationally acclaimed
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘express approval’): from Latin acclamare, from ad- ‘to’ + clamare ‘to shout’. The change in the ending was due to association with claim. Current senses date from the 17th cent.Definitions on the go
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