applause

[Ap*plause·]

After a theatrical performance, audience members typically use applause, or hand clapping, to express their approval. (Of course, sometimes applause just means the audience is glad it’s time to go home.)

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The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.

Noun
a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together


n.
The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.


Applause

Ap*plause" , n. [L. applaudere, appausum. See Applaud.] The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.
The brave man seeks not popular applause.
Syn. -- Acclaim; acclamation; plaudit; commendation; approval.

The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.

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Usage Examples

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

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Other Usage Examples

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

Applause waits on success.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

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