exclamation

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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

• exclamation mark, exclamation point
• note of exclamation

• “exclamation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “exclamation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Coatlán Mixe

Borrowed from Latin exclamātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.skla.ma.sjɔ̃/

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exclamation f (plural exclamations)

1. exclamation (cry of joy)

• point d’exclamation

• exclamer

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