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Definitions: Exclaim |
ExclaimVerb1. 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: ExclaimSynonyms: call out (v), cry (v), cry out (v), outcry (v), proclaim (v), promulgate (v), shout (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Exclaim |
| English words defined with "exclaim": Exclaimed ♦ To cry out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "exclaim": barfulation. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 81.48% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.11% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.41% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "exclaim": exclaim against. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 emocionante (thrilling). (various references) exclama (break out, cry, cry out, ejaculate, shout). (various references) восклицать (ejaculate). (various references) uzviknuti (give a cry, holler, whoop). (various references) exclamar (break out, cry out, ejaculate, shout). (various references) utropa (call, call out, cry, cry out, ejaculate, herald, proclaim, proclaime). (various references) 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) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | exclama, exclamabilis, exclamans, exclamantes, exclamare, exclamaverunt, exclamavit, exclamavitque, exclamo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "exclaim": exclaimed, exclaimer, exclaimers, exclaiming, exclaims. (additional references) | |
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"Exclaim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exclam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "exclaim" (pronounced iksklā"m) |
| 5 | -s k l ā" m | disclaim. |
| 4 | -k l ā" m | acclaim, claim, declaim, proclaim, reclaim. |
| 3 | -l ā" m | aflame, blame, flame, inflame, lame. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 63 6C 61 69 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- -.-. .-.. .- .. -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01100011 01101100 01100001 01101001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x c l a i m |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39906978677579 |
| 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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