"ovation" meaning in English

See ovation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ə(ʊ)ˈveɪ.ʃn̩] [Received-Pronunciation], /oʊˈveɪ.ʃən/ [General-American], [oʊˈveɪ.ʃn̩] [General-American], /əʉˈvæɪ.ʃn̩/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-ovation.wav Forms: ovations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ovātiōnem. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|la|ovātiō|ovātiōnem}} Learned borrowing from Latin ovātiōnem Head templates: {{en-noun}} ovation (plural ovations)
  1. (Ancient Rome) A victory ceremony of less importance than a triumph. Tags: Ancient-Rome Categories (topical): Ancient Rome
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  2. (by extension) A (ceremony for the) recognition of some achievement. Tags: broadly
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  3. (by extension) Prolonged enthusiastic applause. Tags: broadly Translations (prolonged enthusiastic applause): ава́цыя (avácyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), ова́ция (ovácija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 熱烈掌聲 /热烈掌声 (rèliè zhǎngshēng) (Chinese Mandarin), ovatie [feminine] (Dutch), ovacio (Esperanto), suosionosoitukset (Finnish), ovation [feminine] (French), Ovation [feminine] (German), Beifallssturm [masculine] (German), tosender Beifall [masculine] (German), ováció (Hungarian), fagnaðarlæti [neuter, plural] (Icelandic), hylling [feminine] (Icelandic), lófatak [neuter] (Icelandic), ovazione [feminine] (Italian), applauso [masculine] (Italian), 喝采 (kassai) (alt: かっさい) (Japanese), 갈채 (galchae) (alt: 喝采) (Korean), owacja [feminine] (Polish), ovação [feminine] (Portuguese), ова́ция (ovácija) [feminine] (Russian), бу́рные аплодисме́нты (búrnyje aplodisménty) [masculine, plural] (Russian), ovación [feminine] (Spanish), ovation (Swedish), ова́ція (ovácija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), אָוואַציע (ovatsye) [feminine] (Yiddish)
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Derived forms: standing ovation
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: [ə(ʊ)ˈveɪ.ʃn̩] [Received-Pronunciation], /oʊˈveɪ.ʃən/ [General-American], [oʊˈveɪ.ʃn̩] [General-American], /əʉˈvæɪ.ʃn̩/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-ovation.wav
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Late Latin ovatio (“egg-laying”) + English -ion (suffix indicating an action or process, or the result of an action or process). Ovatio is derived from ovāre (“to lay eggs”), from Latin ōvum (“egg”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“dress; to be dressed, clothe oneself”)) + -āre. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂ew-}}, {{der|en|LL.|ovatio|t=egg-laying}} Late Latin ovatio (“egg-laying”), {{der|en|la|ōvum|t=egg}} Latin ōvum (“egg”), {{sup|2}} ², {{der|en|ine-pro|*h₂ew-|t=dress; to be dressed, clothe oneself}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“dress; to be dressed, clothe oneself”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} ovation (uncountable)
  1. (zoology, obsolete, rare) The act of laying eggs. Tags: obsolete, rare, uncountable Categories (topical): Zoology
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Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: [ə(ʊ)ˈveɪ.ʃn̩] [Received-Pronunciation], /oʊˈveɪ.ʃən/ [General-American], [oʊˈveɪ.ʃn̩] [General-American], /əʉˈvæɪ.ʃn̩/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-ovation.wav Forms: ovations [present, singular, third-person], ovationing [participle, present], ovationed [participle, past], ovationed [past]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ovātiōnem. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|la|ovātiō|ovātiōnem}} Learned borrowing from Latin ovātiōnem Head templates: {{en-verb}} ovation (third-person singular simple present ovations, present participle ovationing, simple past and past participle ovationed)
  1. (transitive, intransitive, informal, rare) To give (someone) an ovation (prolonged enthusiastic applause). Tags: informal, intransitive, rare, transitive Synonyms: ovate [informal]
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Etymology number: 1

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          "text": "Proceede then in your bleſt Inauguration, / And celebrate this Annuall Ovation; / Whilſt you nor this way, nor to that way leane, / But ſhunne th' extreames, to keepe the golden meane.",
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          "text": "I saw reverend prelates, who, tearing off their lawn, put themſelves into red coats, and ſoon obtained triumphs and ovations; while others dwindled into pariſh clerks, and village pedagogues.",
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          "text": "May 19. [1649] Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General of the Parliament Army was then alſo created Dr. of Civil Law. […] [H]is atchievment was induſtriouſly cried up at Weſtminſter and all the Grandees of Scriptural Ovation were fitted and accommodated thereunto.",
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        "3": "ovatio",
        "t": "egg-laying"
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  "etymology_text": "From Late Latin ovatio (“egg-laying”) + English -ion (suffix indicating an action or process, or the result of an action or process). Ovatio is derived from ovāre (“to lay eggs”), from Latin ōvum (“egg”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“dress; to be dressed, clothe oneself”)) + -āre.",
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        "English terms with rare senses",
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          "ref": "1825 November, John Mason Good, “Art. I.—On Instinct.”, in Roderick MacLeod, John Bacot, editors, The London Medical and Physical Journal. […], volume LIV, number 4, London: Printed for the proprietors, by J. and C. Adlard, […]; published by J. Souter, […], →OCLC, page 363:",
          "text": "[The ichneumon wasp] drops an egg. She next seeks out a small green caterpillar inhabiting the leaves of the cabbage-plant, which she punctures with her sting, yet so slightly and delicately as not to kill it; she then rolls it up into a circle, and places it in the sandy nest, immediately over the egg. She continues the same labour till she has counted twelve, and deposited twelve caterpillars, one over another; and thus repeats the process of ovation and supply, till she has exhausted herself of her entire stock of eggs.",
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          "ref": "1842 February 28, Evory Kennedy, “February 28, Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, D.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. [Paper by Evory Kennedy on the system of generation and habits of certain Acephalocysts.]”, in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume II, number 33, Dublin: Printed by M[ichael] H[enry] Gill, printer to the [Royal Irish] Academy, published 1844, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 221–222:",
          "text": "Having considered their animal nature, and their primary formation, as involving the question of spontaneous generation, he described generally the methods of reproduction adopted in this class of animals, and adduced the explanations and opinions offered by the best authorities on the subject, but particularly those of Bremner, [René] Lænnec, and Owen, by which acephalocystic reproduction is referred to imperfect ovation or generation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, Fred[erick] V[incent] Theobald, “The Chironomidæ, or Midges”, in An Account of British Flies (Diptera), volume I, London: Elliot Stock, […], →OCLC, page 203:",
          "text": "Parthenogenetic reproduction, as a rule, takes place in the summer months, as seen in the Aphides, Crustacea (Daphnia), and Cecidomyiæ, where we see the asexual reproduction taking place during the summer, and at the approach of cold weather the process of ovation taking its place.",
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        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/oʊˈveɪ.ʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[oʊˈveɪ.ʃn̩]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əʉˈvæɪ.ʃn̩/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
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      "rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
    }
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}

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