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say it: PLAW-dits
plaudits is a noun meaning "enthusiastic approval". It carries one recorded sense.
enthusiastic approval
“the book met with modest acclaim”
“he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd”
“they gave him more eclat than he really deserved”
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 plaudits 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.