say it: eks-kluh-MAY-shuhn
exclamation is a noun meaning "an abrupt excited utterance". It carries 3 recorded senses.
an abrupt excited utterance
“she gave an exclamation of delight”
“there was much exclaiming over it”
a loud complaint or protest or reproach
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for exclamation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.