hand clapping

1. 1.

   a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together

   Synonymsapplauseclapping

   Broaderapproval

   Narrowerhandhandclapround

   Part ofovation

Questions about hand clapping

What does hand clapping mean?

hand clapping means "a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together".

What is another word for hand clapping?

Close synonyms include applause, clapping. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hand clapping a common word?

hand clapping is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.