See compliment in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "pay someone a compliment",
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"ref": "c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:",
"text": "[…] I met him\nWith customary compliment; when he,\nWafting his eyes to the contrary and falling\nA lip of much contempt, speeds from me and\nSo leaves me to consider what is breeding\nThat changeth thus his manners.",
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"ref": "1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 65:",
"text": "[...] what honour that,\nbut tedious waste of time, to sit and hear\nSo many hollow compliments and lies,\nOutlandish flatteries?",
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"ref": "1782, William Cowper, “Table Talk”, in Poems, London: J. Johnson, page 37:",
"text": "Virtue indeed meets many a rhiming friend,\nAnd many a compliment politely penn’d,",
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"word": "お世辞"
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"word": "칭찬"
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"word": "찬사"
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"word": "คำชมเชย"
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"ref": "1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 457:",
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},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "bókol"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "complimentarsi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "whakamihi"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "komplimentere"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "gi kompliment"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "elogiar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "govorítʹ kompliménty",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "говори́ть комплиме́нты"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "felicitar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "cumplimentar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "falagar (disused)"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "halagar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "ge en komplimang"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "komplimentera"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "iltifat etmek"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "khen ngợi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to pay a compliment; to express a favorable opinion",
"word": "ca tụng"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"compliment"
],
"word": "compliment"
}
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