different between kudo vs accolade

English

Etymology

Back-formation from kudos, as if it were a plural with -s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?d??/, /?kju?d??/

Noun

kudo (plural kudos)

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) A compliment or praise.
   • 1929 February 18, "Harkness Lampooned"^[1], in Time,

     Tycoon George Fisher Baker built Harvard's Business School in 1924, was given a kudo Ph.D.

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kudo?/, [?kudo?(?)]
• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification: ku?do

Verb

kudo

1. Indicative present connegative form of kutoa.
2. Second person singular imperative present form of kutoa.
3. Second person singular imperative present connegative form of kutoa.

Anagrams

• doku

Ido

Etymology

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Noun

kudo (plural kudi)

1. (anatomy) elbow

Derived terms

• kudigar (“to make an elbow”)

Japanese

Romanization

kudo

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Noun

kudo

1. Nonstandard spelling of kuda.

Spanish

Etymology

Japanese ??.

Noun

kudo m (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) kudo

Hypernyms

• deporte de combate

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish kutu.

Noun

kudo

1. spawn (of fish, amphibians)

Inflection

References

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

English

Etymology

• First attested in the 1620s.
• (award, praise): First attested in 1852.
• Borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, from Vulgar Latin accol?re (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?æk.?.?le?d/, /?æk.?.?l?d/

Noun

accolade (plural accolades)

1. An expression of approval; praise.
2. A special acknowledgment; an award.
3. An embrace of greeting or salutation.
4. (historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
5. (music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
6. (US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954. Service of civilians who died overseas or as a result of injury or disease contracted while serving in a civilian capacity with the United States Armed Forces during the dates and/or in areas prescribed is in like manner recognized.
7. (architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. Such accolades are either plain or adorned with rich moldings, and are a frequent motive of decoration on the lintels of doors and windows of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially in secular architecture.
8. Synonym of curly bracket

Synonyms

• (expression of approval or praise): panegyric

Related terms

• collar

Translations

References

• (4) https://web.archive.org/web/20060209015723/http://www.afms1.belvoir.army.mil/dictionary/a.htm#accolade

Verb

accolade (third-person singular simple present accolades, present participle accolading, simple past and past participle accoladed)

1. (transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
2. (transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on.
3. (transitive) To confer praise or awards on.

   an accoladed novel

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French accolade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko??la?d?/
• Hyphenation: ac?co?la?de

Noun

accolade f (plural accolades, diminutive accoladetje n)

1. (punctuations) brace, curly bracket ({ })
2. anything that resembles the above

French

Etymology

From Franco-Provençal acolada, from Italian, from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.k?.lad/
• Homophone: accolades
• Hyphenation: a?cco?lade

Noun

accolade f (plural accolades)

1. curly bracket (brace)
2. (historical) accolade (knights)
3. embrace

Synonyms

• (embrace): embrassade

Descendants

• ? Danish: akkolade
• ? German: Akkolade

Verb

accolade

1. first-person singular present indicative of accolader
2. third-person singular present indicative of accolader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of accolader
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of accolader
5. second-person singular imperative of accolader

Further reading

• “accolade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).