different between laud vs worship

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

Alternative forms

• wurship (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English worschippe, worthschipe, from Old English weorþs?ipe; synchronically analyzable as worth (“worthy, honorable”) +? -ship. Cognate with Scots worschip (“worship”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w????p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w???p/, /?w????p/
• Hyphenation: wor?ship

Noun

worship (usually uncountable, plural worships)

1. (obsolete) The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:

     Then he forth on his journey did proceede, / To seeke adventures which mote him befall, / And win him worship through his warlike deed […].

2. The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
3. The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of Being Religious

     The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.

4. (by extension) Voluntary, utter submission; voluntary, utter deference.
5. (also by extension) Ardent love.
6. An object of worship.
   • 1882 or later, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michel Angelo

     In attitude and aspect formed to be / At once the artist's worship and despair.

7. Honour; respect; civil deference.
   • Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

8. (chiefly British) Used as a title or term of address for various officials, including magistrates

Synonyms

• adoration
• reverence
• idolatry

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

worship (third-person singular simple present worships, present participle (Commonwealth) worshipping or (US) worshiping, simple past and past participle (Commonwealth) worshipped or (US) worshiped or (obsolete) worshipt)

1. (transitive) To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
   • 1655, John Milton, Sonnet 18

     When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.

2. (transitive) To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
   • a. 1639, Thomas Carew, A Cruell Mistris

     With bended knees I daily worship her.

3. (intransitive) To participate in religious ceremonies.

Derived terms

• worship the porcelain god

Translations

References

• worship at OneLook Dictionary Search