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Definition: Exult |
ExultVerb1. 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) |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
EXULT | English | Extreme ultraviolet excimer laser | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ExultSynonyms: be on cloud nine (v), jubilate (v), jump for joy (v), rejoice (v), triumph (v), walk on air (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Exult |
| English words defined with "exult": Exulted ♦ Overcrow ♦ To crow over. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "exult": Crow over One. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "exult": Ovation. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 73.33% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Exult, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "exult": be exult. 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 |
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. | |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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 English | 450-1100 | ahliehhan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "exult": exultance, exultances, exultancies, exultancy, exultant, exultantly, exultation, exultations, exulted, exulting, exultingly, exults. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "exult" (pronounced igzu"lt) |
| 4 | -z u" l t | result. |
| 3 | -u" l t | adult, consult, cult, insult, occult. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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