exclamation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclamatio, from ex (“out”) + clamare (“I cry out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

exclamation (countable and uncountable, plural exclamations)

1. A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 45:

     "And now, my dearest Lucy, collect yourself, for all depends upon our own resources." Such were the whispered exclamations with which Francesca cheered her trembling companion, whose courage was not heightened by the darkness and stillness around them as they proceeded on their hazardous enterprise.

2. A word expressing outcry; an interjection
3. An exclamation mark

   Synonym: exclamation point

Derived terms

• exclamational
• exclamation mark, exclamation point
• note of exclamation

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kelh₁- (0 c, 49 e)

Translations

loud calling or crying out; outcry

• Arabic: صِيَاح m (ṣiyāḥ), صُرَاخ m (ṣurāḵ), هَاتِف (ar) m (hātif), هَتْفَة f (hatfa)
• Armenian: բացականչություն (hy) (bacʻakančʻutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: nida (az)
• Belarusian: вы́гук m (výhuk), во́кліч m (vóklič)
• Bulgarian: възклица́ние (bg) n (vǎzklicánie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 叫喊 (zh) (jiàohǎn), 感嘆 / 感叹 (zh) (gǎntàn)

• Czech: zvolání (cs) n, výkřik (cs) m
• Danish: udråb n
• Dutch: uitroep (nl) m
• Estonian: hüüatus
• Finnish: huudahdus (fi), parahdus (fi)
• French: exclamation (fr) f
• Galician: exclamación (gl) f
• Georgian: წამოძახილი (c̣amoʒaxili), შეძახილი (šeʒaxili)
• German: Ausruf (de) m
• Greek: επιφώνημα (el) n (epifónima), αναφώνηση (el) f (anafónisi)
• Italian: esclamazione (it) f
• Japanese: 叫び (ja) (さけび, sakebi)
• Kazakh: леп (lep), лептеу (lepteu), саңқылдау (sañqyldau)
• Korean: 외침 (ko) (oechim)
• Latin: exclāmātiō f
• Latvian: iekliegšanās f
• Lithuanian: sušukimas m
• Macedonian: извик m (izvik)
• Malay: jeritan (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utrop n

• Polish: okrzyk (pl) m, wykrzyk m
• Portuguese: exclamação (pt) f
• Romanian: exclamare (ro) f, exclamație (ro) f
• Russian: восклица́ние (ru) n (vosklicánije), во́зглас (ru) m (vózglas), вы́крик (ru) m (výkrik), вскрик (ru) m (vskrik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̏звӣк m

  Roman: ȕzvīk (sh) m

• Slovak: zvolanie n, výkrik m
• Slovene: vzklik (sl) m
• Spanish: exclamación (es) f
• Swedish: utrop (sv) n
• Tagalog: bulalas
• Tajik: нидо (tg) (nido), хитоб (xitob)
• Turkish: ünlem (tr), haykırış (tr)
• Ukrainian: ви́гук (uk) m (výhuk), о́крик (uk) m (ókryk), о́клик (uk) m (óklyk)
• Uzbek: xitob (uz), nido (uz), undov (uz)

word expressing outcry

• Bulgarian: възклица́ние (bg) n (vǎzklicánie)
• Dutch: uitroep (nl) m
• Finnish: huudahdus (fi)
• German: Exklamation (de)
• Greek: επιφώνημα (el) n (epifónima)
• Italian: esclamazione (it) f
• Maori: tūhau
• Russian: восклица́ние (ru) n (vosklicánije)
• Swedish: interjektion (sv) c
• Welsh: ebychiad (cy) m

part of speech

• Polish: wykrzyknik (pl) m

exclamation mark — see exclamation mark

Further reading

• “exclamation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “exclamation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Coatlán Mixe

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exclamātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.skla.ma.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

exclamation f (plural exclamations)

1. exclamation (cry of joy)

Derived terms

• point d’exclamation

Related terms

• exclamer

Further reading

• “exclamation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.