accolade
English edit
Etymology edit
- First attested in the 1620s.
- (award, praise): First attested in 1852.
- Borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, from Vulgar Latin *accollō (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /ˈæk.ə.ˌleɪd/, /ˌæk.ə.ˈlɑd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun edit
accolade (plural accolades)
- An expression of approval; praise.
- A special acknowledgment; an award.
- This film is likely to pick up major accolades.
- 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC[1]:
- Rooney led Manchester United up the Wembley steps to collect the FA Cup and add a missing medal to his collection - a richly deserved accolade.
- An embrace of greeting or salutation.
- (historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
- (music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
- (US) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954.
- (architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other.
- Synonym of curly bracket
Synonyms edit
- (expression of approval or praise): panegyric
Related terms edit
Translations edit
an expression of approval; praise
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a special acknowledgment; an award
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a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood
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(music) a brace used to join two or more staves
(American military) written presidential certificate
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References edit
Verb edit
accolade (third-person singular simple present accolades, present participle accolading, simple past and past participle accoladed)
- (transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
- (transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on.
- (transitive) To confer praise or awards on.
- an accoladed novel
Translations edit
To embrace or kiss
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To confer a knighthood on
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To confer a praise or an award on
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French accolade.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
accolade f (plural accolades, diminutive accoladetje n)
- (punctuations) brace, curly bracket ({ })
- anything that resembles the above
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French acolade, from Old French acolee (remade with the suffix -ade), from the verb acoler.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
accolade f (plural accolades)
- curly bracket (brace)
- (historical) accolade (knights)
- embrace
- Synonym: embrassade
Descendants edit
Verb edit
accolade
- inflection of accolader:
Further reading edit
- “accolade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.