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praise
English
Etymology
From Middle English praisen, preisen, borrowed from Old French proisier, preisier (“to value, prize”), from Late Latin preti? (“to value, prize”) from pretium (“price, worth, reward”). See prize. Displaced native Middle English lofen, loven (“to praise”) (from Old English lofian, compare Middle English and Old English lof (“praise”), see love, lofe, loff), Middle English herien (“to praise, glorify, celebrate”) (from Old English herian), Middle English rosen (“to praise, glorify”) (from Old Norse hrósa).
Pronunciation
- enPR: pr?z, IPA(key): /p?e?z/
- Rhymes: -e?z
- Homophones: prays, preys
Noun
praise (countable and uncountable, plural praises)
- commendation; favourable representation in words
- worship
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:praise
Antonyms
- blame
- criticize
- See Thesaurus:praise
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
praise (third-person singular simple present praises, present participle praising, simple past and past participle praised)
- To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship.
Antonyms
- blame
Derived terms
- overpraise
- underpraise
- unpraised
Translations
Further reading
- praise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- praise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Arispe, Parise, Pearis, Persia, aspire, paires, paries, spirea
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
praise f
- genitive singular of prais
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boast
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??st/
- (General American) IPA(key): /bo?st/
- Rhymes: -??st
Etymology 1
From Middle English bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”). Cognate with Scots bost, boist (“to threaten, brag, boast”), Anglo-Norman bost (“ostentation”) (from Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (“proud, bold, daring”), dialectal German baustern (“to swell”), German böse (“evil, bad, angry”), Dutch boos (“evil, wicked, angry”), West Frisian boas (“bad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever”). Compare also dialectal Norwegian bausta, busta (“to rush onward, make a noise”).
Noun
boast (plural boasts)
- A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
- Something that one brags about.
- (squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
Translations
Verb
boast (third-person singular simple present boasts, present participle boasting, simple past and past participle boasted)
- (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist, 235c.
- On no account will he or any other kind be able to boast that he's escaped the pursuit of those who can follow so detailed and comprehensive a method of enquiry.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist, 235c.
- (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
- (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
- (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot.
- (ergative) To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).
Synonyms
- brag
Derived terms
- boastful
- boastfully
- boastworthy
- outboast
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
boast (third-person singular simple present boasts, present participle boasting, simple past and past participle boasted)
- (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
- (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
References
- “boast”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- basto, boats, sabot
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