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Exclaim

Definitions: Exclaim

Exclaim

Verb

1. Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!'" he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost".

2. State or announce; " `I am not a Communist,' " he exclaimed; "The King will proclaim an amnesty".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "exclaim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Exclaim

Synonyms: call out (v), cry (v), cry out (v), outcry (v), proclaim (v), promulgate (v), shout (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Exclaim

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disapprobation

Exclaim against, protest against, inveigh against, declaim against, cry out against, raise one's voice against.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Exclaim

English words defined with "exclaim": ExclaimedTo cry out. (references)
Specialty definitions using "exclaim": barfulation. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Exclaim

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Familiar Quotations: Exclaim

AuthorQuotation

Henry Fielding

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Exclaim

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

When once it had been read, there was no doing any thing, but lament and exclaim.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Exclaim

"Exclaim" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 81.48% of the time. "Exclaim" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)81.48%4451,500
Noun (singular)11.11%6143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)7.41%4175,879
                    Total100.00%54N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Exclaim

Expression using "exclaim": exclaim against. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Exclaim

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  exclaim

20

  salomon exclaim

12

  exclaim magazine

7

  chat exclaim

4

  exclaim general tire

3

  exclaim tire

2

  exclaim general

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Exclaim

Language Translations for "exclaim"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

thërres (ask, bawl, call, call out, call up, conjure, convene, convoke, cry, give a cry, hail, holler, invite, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), thërras (ask, bawl, call, call out, call up, conjure, convene, convoke, cry, drum up, hail, holler, invite, obtest, page, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop), bërtas (bawl, call, Caterwaul, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, ejaculate, holler, objurgate, scream, shout, shout at, shriek, squall, vociferate, whoop, yell). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هتف (acclaim, applaud, blare, cheer, ejaculate, root, whoop, yell), ‏صرخ (call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, holler, make noise, outcry, pop off, scream, shout, shriek, squawk, squeak, yell), ‏أعلن بقوة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

възкликвам (burst out), извиквам (call in, call out, cry out, evoke, give a cry, hail, shout, shout for, yell). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

惊叹 (Exclaimed, Exclaiming). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zvolat (ejaculate), vykřiknout (call out, cry out, ejaculate, give a cry, utter, yell). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ازروی تعجب فریادزدن , اعلام کردن (Acclaim, Enunciate, Herald, Notify, Promulgate), بعموم اگهی دادن , بانگ زدن (Crow, Cry). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

puhjeta sanomaan (burst out), huudahtaa (call out, cry out). (various references)

   

French

  

exclamer. (various references)

   

German

  

ausrufen (call, call out, cry out, ejaculate, evoke, issue, proclaim, sing out, to evoke, to exclaim). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναφωνώ (ejaculate, vociferate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kiált (hail, holler, shout, to bark, to chirp, to clang, to exclaim, to hoop, to huzza, to shout, to whoop, to yammer), felkiált (cry out, give a cry, to call out, to cry, to exclaim, to shout out). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

berseru (ejaculate). (various references)

   

Italian

  

esclamare (ejaculate, shout). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

영탄하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

yllaghey (acclaim, bawl, shout). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

utbryte. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exclaimay

   

Portuguese

  

emocionante (thrilling). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

exclama (break out, cry, cry out, ejaculate, shout). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

восклицать (ejaculate). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uzviknuti (give a cry, holler, whoop). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

exclamar (break out, cry out, ejaculate, shout). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utropa (call, call out, cry, cry out, ejaculate, herald, proclaim, proclaime). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

haykırmak (bawl, burst in, burst out, call to, cry, cry out, ejaculate, roar, rumble, rumble out, scream, shout, shout out, spit, whoop, yell), bağırmak (bark, bark at, bawl, bell, bellow, call, cry, ejaculate, holler, hollo, holloa, hoop, hoot, howl, roar, scream, shout, shout at, shout out, sing out, troat, trumpet, whoop, yell), bağırıp çağırmak (bawl out, declaim, declaim against, loose off at, pop off, shout at, vociferate). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

кричати (bawl, call, chirp, clamor, clamour, cry, holler, honk, noise, shout, sing out, toot, vociferate, yawl, yell), вигукувати (cry out, ejaculate, outcry, rap, shout). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Exclaim

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

exclama, exclamabilis, exclamans, exclamantes, exclamare, exclamaverunt, exclamavit, exclamavitque, exclamo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Exclaim

Derivations

Words beginning with "exclaim": exclaimed, exclaimer, exclaimers, exclaiming, exclaims. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Exclaim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exclam. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Exclaim"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "exclaim" (pronounced iksklā"m)
5-s k l ā" mdisclaim.
4-k l ā" macclaim, claim, declaim, proclaim, reclaim.
3-l ā" maflame, blame, flame, inflame, lame.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Exclaim

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-m-x"

-1 letter: climax, lexica, malice.

-2 letters: amice, axile, calix, camel, cimex, claim, clime, email, ileac, macle, maile, malic, melic.

-3 letters: acme, alec, alme, amie, axel, axil, axle, calm, calx, came, ceil, clam, emic, exam, ilea, ilex, lace, laic, lame, lice, lima, lime, mace, mail, male, maxi, meal, mica, mice, mile.

-4 letters: ace, ail, aim, ale, ami.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-m-x"
 

+1 letter: climaxed, climaxes, exclaims.

 

+2 letters: exclaimed, exclaimer.

 

+3 letters: climaxless, exclaimers, exclaiming.

 

+4 letters: disclimaxes, exclamation, hexadecimal, subclimaxes.

 

+5 letters: anticlimaxes, complexation, complexional, exclamations, exophthalmic, extramusical, hexadecimals.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Exclaim


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 78 63 6C 61 69 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01111000 01100011 01101100 01100001 01101001 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#120 &#99 &#108 &#97 &#105 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0063 006C 0061 0069 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39906978677579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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