plaudits

1. 1.

   enthusiastic approval

   “the book met with modest acclaim”

   “he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd”

   “they gave him more eclat than he really deserved”

   Synonymsacclaimacclamationplauditeclat

   Broaderapproval

Other forms of plaudits

plural

plauditses·

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.

Questions about plaudits

What does plaudits mean?

plaudits means "enthusiastic approval".

How many syllables are in plaudits?

plaudits has 2 syllables: plau-dits. The stress falls on "plau". In IPA it is /ˈplɔdɪts/.

What is another word for plaudits?

Close synonyms include acclaim, acclamation, plaudit, eclat. 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 plaudits a common word?

plaudits 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.