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Exult

Definition: Exult

Exult

Verb

1. Feel extreme happiness or elation.

2. To express great joy: "As if the sea, and sky, and earth, rejoiced with new-born liberty." Shelley.

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

Date "exult" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Exult \Ex*ult"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Exulted; present participle verb or noun Exulting.]. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Exult

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

EXULT

EnglishExtreme ultraviolet excimer laserN/A

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

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Synonyms: Exult

Synonyms: be on cloud nine (v), jubilate (v), jump for joy (v), rejoice (v), triumph (v), walk on air (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Exult

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

Boasting

Exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood.

Rejoicing

Verb: rejoice, thank one's stars, bless one's stars; congratulate oneself, hug oneself; rub one's hands, clap one's hands; smack the lips, fling up one's cap; dance, skip; sing, carol, chirrup, chirp; hurrah; cry for joy, jump for joy, leap with joy; exult; (boast); triumph; hold jubilee; (celebrate); make merry; (sport).

Repute

Verb: be conscious of glory; be proud of; (pride); exult; (boast); be vain of; (vanity).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Exult

English words defined with "exult": ExultedOvercrowTo crow over. (references)
Specialty definitions using "exult": Crow over One. (references)
Etymologies containing "exult": Ovation. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Exult

DomainTitle

References

  • Exult, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • EXULT, INC.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Use in Literature: Exult

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He wanted to sin with another of his kind, to force another being to sin with him and to exult with her in sin.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Exult

"Exult" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "Exult" is used about 15 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)73.33%11106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)20%3202,518
Noun (singular)6.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%15N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: Exult

CountryName
USA

Exult, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Exult

Expression using "exult": be exult. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Exult

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

exult

138

exult inc

15

canada exult

2

7 exult ultima

2

campbell exult naomi

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

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Modern Translation: Exult

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

Albanian

  

ngazëlloj, ngazëllehem (celebrate, thrill, warm), gëzohem (am glad, be glad, enjoy oneself, Jubilate, rejoice, revel). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏تهلل (exhilaration, exultation, glory, jubilate, ravishment), ‏جذل (be glad, cheerful, exuberant, exultant, exultation, glad, happy, hilarious, jubilation, rapt, rapture, rapturous), ‏إبتهج إبتهاجا شديدا. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

радвам се (be glad, delight, glory, joy, rejoicing), тържествувам (triumph), ликувам (effervesce, glory, rejoice, triumph). (various references)

   

Czech

  

radovat se (rejoice), plesat, jásat (glory, Jubilate, shout). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

jubelen. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

jubili. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

skera í fagnaðarróp. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

وجدکردن (Rejoice), خوشی کردن (Rejoice), شادی کردن (Joy, Rejoice, Revel), بوجدوطرب امدن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

riemuita (rejoice). (various references)

   

French

  

exulter. (various references)

   

German

  

frohlocken (rejoice). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χαίρω πολύ, αγάλλομαι (glory, rejoice), θριαμβολογώ (crow). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לשיש (be glad, rejoice), לעלוץ (rejoice), להתעלס (dally, delight in, make love, rejoice, solace oneself with love), לצהול (rejoice, shout with joy, triumph), לסלוד (be scalded, disgust, recoil). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ujjong (to exult, to hoop, to jubilate), örvendez (to exult). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

bersukaria. (various references)

   

Italian

  

esultare (cheer, glory, Jubilate, maffick, rejoice, triumph). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo boggys (boast, boasting, brag). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

juble. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exultay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

exultar (crow, glory, jubilate, pride, triumph), esvair (exhaust, faint, fall away), triunfar (triumph). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

exulta. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ликовать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

likovati (chortle, crow, glory, jubilate, maffick, rejoice). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

exultar (rejoice), regocijarse (rejoice). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

jubla (shout with joy). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ดีใจ (glad). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sevinçten havalara uçmak (be riding on air, leap for joy, tread on air, walk on air), iftihar etmek (be proud of, boast, pique oneself on smth., pride oneself, swell, take a pride in, take pride in), bayram etmek, övünmek (be proud, be proud of, boast, brag, crow, gas, glory, pique oneself on smth., plume oneself on, plume oneself upon, praise oneself, pride oneself, pride oneself on, sing one's own praises, sport, talk big, vapor, vapour, vaunt), çok sevinmek (be very happy). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

heюelle kakmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

торжествувати (prevail, triumph). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Exult

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

exsulto, exulta, exultabant, exultabimus, exultabis, exultabit, exultabitis, exultabo, exultabunt, exultans, exultant, exultantes, exultantis, exultare, exultastis, exultat, exultate, exultatis, exultaverunt, exultavimus, exultavit, exultem, exultemus, exultent, exultet, gestis, superexultat. (various references)

Old English450-1100

ahliehhan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Exult

Derivations

Words beginning with "exult": exultance, exultances, exultancies, exultancy, exultant, exultantly, exultation, exultations, exulted, exulting, exultingly, exults. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Exult" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eaul, emult, eul, eulx, eux, Exall, exault, exell, exl, exolt, exot, Exquota, exu, exual, exule, exulm, exurt, exust. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Exult"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "exult" (pronounced igzu"lt)
4-z u" l tresult.
3-u" l tadult, consult, cult, insult, occult.

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Anagrams: Exult

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-l-t-u-x"

-1 letter: lute, luxe, tule.

-2 letters: let, leu, lex, lux, tel, tux.

-3 letters: el, et, ex, ut, xu.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-t-u-x"
 

+1 letter: exults, luxate.

 

+2 letters: exulted, luxated, luxates, textual, ulexite.

 

+3 letters: exultant, exulting, fluxgate, octuplex, plateaux, sextuple, sextuply, tableaux, textural, ulexites.

 

+4 letters: exculpate, exultance, exultancy, fluxgates, luxuriate, multiplex, sextupled, sextuples, sextuplet, sexuality, textually.

 

+5 letters: antisexual, asexuality, contextual, curtalaxes, exculpated, exculpates, executable, exsolution, extramural, extrudable, exultances, exultantly, exultation, exultingly, fluoxetine, luxuriated, luxuriates, sextuplets, sextupling, subtextual, texturally.

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

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