exclamation

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun an abrupt excited utterance
  2. noun a loud complaint or protest or reproach
  3. noun an exclamatory rhetorical device

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclāmātiō, from exclāmō (“to cry out”) + -tiō.

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Synonyms

exclaiming

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