exclamation

Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclamatio, from ex (“out”) + clamare (“I cry out”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

exclamation (countable and uncountable, plural exclamations)

1. A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 45:

     "And now, my dearest Lucy, collect yourself, for all depends upon our own resources." Such were the whispered exclamations with which Francesca cheered her trembling companion, whose courage was not heightened by the darkness and stillness around them as they proceeded on their hazardous enterprise.

2. A word expressing outcry; an interjection
3. (linguistics) A clause type used to make an exclamatory statement: What a mess they made!; How stupid I was!
4. The sign "!" by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked.

• (punctuation “!”): exclamation mark, exclamation point

• exclamation mark, exclamation point

• exclamation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• exclamation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• Coatlán Mixe

Borrowed from Latin exclamationem.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.skla.ma.sjɔ̃/

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exclamation f (plural exclamations)

1. exclamation (cry of joy)

• point d'exclamation

• exclamer

• “exclamation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.