different between utterance vs exclamation

English

Alternative forms

• utteraunce

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t???ns/
• Hyphenation: ut?ter?ance

Etymology 1

From utter +? -ance.

Noun

utterance (countable and uncountable, plural utterances)

1. An act of uttering.
   • July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review

     Mathematics and Poetry are [...] the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.

2. Something spoken.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.

     To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.

3. The ability to speak.
4. A manner of speaking.
5. (obsolete) A sale made by offering to the public.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) An act of putting in circulation.

Related terms

• utter
• utterable
• utterer

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French oultrance.

Noun

utterance (plural utterances)

1. (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).

References

Further reading

• utterance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• utterance at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• cruentate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclamatio, from ex (“out”) + clamare (“I cry out”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kskl??me??(?)n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

exclamation (countable and uncountable, plural exclamations)

1. A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
2. A word expressing outcry; an interjection
3. (linguistics) A clause type used to make an exclamatory statement: What a mess they made!; How stupid I was!
4. The sign "!" by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked.

Synonyms

• (punctuation “!”): exclamation mark, exclamation point

Derived terms

• exclamation mark, exclamation point

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Coatlán Mixe

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exclamatio, exclamationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.skla.ma.sj??/

Noun

exclamation f (plural exclamations)

1. exclamation (cry of joy)

Derived terms

• point d'exclamation

Related terms

• exclamer

Further reading

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