Huzzah

/həˈzɑː/ · interjection

Meaning

(nautical, dated) Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting..

Definitions by Sense

1. (nautical, dated) Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting.
2. (literary, poetic, archaic, sometimes humorous) Used as a cheer indicating exaltation, enjoyment, or approval.
3. A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event.
4. (ambitransitive) To cheer (someone or something) with a huzzah sound.

Example Sentences

Deposed King: 'KING KNIGHT REIGNS NO MORE? HUZZAH! NOW I CAN RULE PRIDEMOOR! HURRAH!'

The night that she was awakened by the loud huzzah of the Watchman on her palace roof, she thrilled with the hope that her vengeance awaited only the arrival of the propitious hour.

Towns have been taken, and battles have been won; the mob has huzza'd round bonefires, the Stentor of the chappel has ſtrained his throat in the gallery, and the Stentor of S——m has deafned his audience from the pulpit.

In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]

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Word Forms

• huzza
• huzzahs
• huzzahing
• huzzahed

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