different between laud vs defame

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English defamen, from Anglo-Norman defamer (verb), defame (noun), and its source, Latin diff?m?, from f?ma (“fame; rumour; reputation”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??fe?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Verb

defame (third-person singular simple present defames, present participle defaming, simple past and past participle defamed)

1. To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. [from 4th c.]

   • My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.

2. (now chiefly historical) To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence. [from 14th c.]

   Rebecca is […] defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.

3. To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage. [from 4th c.]

   to defame somebody

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:defame

Related terms

• defamatory
• defamation

Translations

Noun

defame (countable and uncountable, plural defames)

1. (now rare, archaic) Disgrace, dishonour. [from 14th c.]
   • 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1:

     And all the sparks that may bring unto flame / Hate betwixt man and wife, or breed defame.

2. (now rare or nonstandard) Defamation; slander, libel. [from 15th c.]

Further reading

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