different between celebrate vs laud

English

Etymology

From Middle English celebraten, from Latin celebratus, past pariticiple of celebr? (“frequent, go to in great numbers, celebrate, honor, praise”), from celeber (“frequented, populous”). Displaced native Old English fæ?nian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l.?.b?e?t/, /?s?l.?.b?e?t/

Verb

celebrate (third-person singular simple present celebrates, present participle celebrating, simple past and past participle celebrated)

1. (transitive) To extol or honour in a solemn manner.

   Synonym: fete
2. (transitive) To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly.

   Synonyms: observe, keep
3. (intransitive) To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.
4. (transitive) To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to perform with appropriate rites.

   Synonym: solemnize

Usage notes

In sense “to conduct ceremonies, to follow a custom”, generally used of festive occasions, such as Christmas and birthdays. For more solemn occasions, particularly certain religious holidays (“holy days”) and commemorations, the term observe is used instead, as in “This office will be closed in observance of Veterans Day.”

Related terms

• celebrant
• celebrated
• celebration
• celebrative
• celebrator
• celebratory
• celebrity

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• erectable

Esperanto

Adverb

celebrate

1. present adverbial passive participle of celebri

Italian

Verb

celebrate

1. inflection of celebrare:
   1. second-person plural indicative present
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• cablerete

Latin

Verb

celebr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of celebr?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French lauder, from Latin laud?, laud?re, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh?wd?- (“song, sound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l?d/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /l?d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

laud (countable and uncountable, plural lauds)

1. Praise or glorification.

   • 1528, William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man

     So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same.

2. Hymn of praise.
3. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.

Translations

Verb

laud (third-person singular simple present lauds, present participle lauding, simple past and past participle lauded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To praise; to glorify.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke I:

     And hys mought was opened immediatly, and hys tonge, and he spake lawdynge god.

Translations

See also

• canonical hours
• lauder

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Auld, Daul, Dula, auld, dual, udal

Estonian

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Germanic *flauþ or *flaut. Compare Swedish flöte. Also compare Lithuanian plautas and Latvian plauts.

Noun

laud (genitive laua, partitive lauda)

1. board
2. plank
3. table

Declension

Derived terms

• lauamäng

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin laus, laudem.

Noun

laud m (plural lauds)

1. praise, commendation

Related terms

• laudâ

Ilocano

Noun

laud

1. west

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish lauta.

Noun

laud

1. board
2. plank

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?la.ud]

Verb

laud

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of l?uda

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Finnish lauta, Estonian laud.

Noun

laud

1. board
2. plank

Inflection

Derived terms

• laudasine
• ?ukalduzlaud
• ikunlaud
• lumilaud
• möndlaud
• potklaud
• tedotuzlaud
• tölaud
• laudkund
• laudsein

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [la.?ud]

Noun

laud (nominative plural lauds)

1. lark (bird)

Declension

Hypernyms

• böd
• nim

Hyponyms

• hilaud
• hilaudül
• jilaud
• jilaudül
• laudil
• laudül

Derived terms

• brüyäralaud (“woodlark”), Lullula arborea
• felalaud (“skylark”), Alauda arvensis
• töpalaud (“crested lark”), Galerida cristata