different between kudos vs acclaim

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kju?d?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ku?.do?z/, /?ku?.do?s/

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (kûdos, “praise, renown”).

Noun

kudos (uncountable)

1. Praise; accolades.
   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "1 Night in Gottlieb" (season 1, episode 2):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Pat, I gotta tell you, you did a lot of things right with this lunch?kudos. You got back quickly, you showed initiative, and, best of all, you left plenty of room for improvement.
2. Credit for one's achievements.

Usage notes

• The noun kudos was originally a mass noun, but in American English is now sometimes treated as a plural noun, either as a plurale tantum, or as the plural of a new noun kudo, contrary to the original Greek ????? (kûdos), which is a singular noun. The American pronunciation implies this plural usage, which many authorities nevertheless consider erroneous.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

kudos

1. plural of kudo Note that 'kudo' is itself a backformation from kudos under the (mistaken) idea that kudos, because it ends in the letter 's', is a plural.

Finnish

Etymology

kutoa (“to weave”) +? -os

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kudos/, [?kudo?s?]
• Rhymes: -udos
• Syllabification: ku?dos

Noun

kudos

1. (textiles) fabric (texture of a cloth)
2. woven fabric; that which has been woven
3. (biology) tissue (group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job)

Declension

Compounds

• aivokudos
• arpikudos
• ihokudos
• ihonalaiskudos
• kudoksensiirto
• kudosvaurio
• sidekudos

Related terms

• kudonnainen
• kudonta
• kutoa

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?.?kle?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Etymology 1

• First attested in the early 14th century.
• (to applaud): First attested in the 1630s.
• Borrowed from Latin accl?m? (“raise a cry at; applaud”), formed from ad- + cl?m? (“cry out, shout”).

Verb

acclaim (third-person singular simple present acclaims, present participle acclaiming, simple past and past participle acclaimed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To shout; to call out.
2. (transitive) To express great approval (for).
   • 1911, Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis

     The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of being a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War, but he was more than satisfied with the execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece.

3. (transitive, rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence

     a glad acclaiming train

4. (transitive, obsolete) To claim.
5. (transitive) To declare by acclamations.
6. (Canada, politics) To elect to an office by having no opposition.

Derived terms

• acclaimable
• acclaimer

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

• First attested in 1667.

Noun

acclaim (countable and uncountable, plural acclaims)

1. (poetic) An acclamation; a shout of applause.
2. (obsolete) A claim.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:applause

Translations

Anagrams

• malacic