Ovation

Quick meaning: Ovation is a noun meaning (Ancient Rome) A victory ceremony of less importance than a triumph.

Meaning

(Ancient Rome) A victory ceremony of less importance than a triumph.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A (ceremony for the) recognition of some achievement.
2. (by extension) Prolonged enthusiastic applause.
3. (ambitransitive, informal, rare) To give (someone) an ovation (prolonged enthusiastic applause).
4. (zoology, obsolete, rare) The act of laying eggs.

Example Sentences

As when a Wolf or Fox too long does fleece / The Non-reſiſting Lambs, or Paſſive Geeſe, / The Peaſants take th' alarm, and ſeize the Foe, / And ſhouting Boys in long Ovation go: […]

Proceede then in your bleſt Inauguration, / And celebrate this Annuall Ovation; / Whilſt you nor this way, nor to that way leane, / But ſhunne th' extreames, to keepe the golden meane.

I saw reverend prelates, who, tearing off their lawn, put themſelves into red coats, and ſoon obtained triumphs and ovations; while others dwindled into pariſh clerks, and village pedagogues.

May 19. [1649] Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General of the Parliament Army was then alſo created Dr. of Civil Law. […] [H]is atchievment was induſtriouſly cried up at Weſtminſter and all the Grandees of Scriptural Ovation were fitted and accommodated thereunto.

Word Forms

• ovations
• ovationing
• ovationed

Synonyms for ovation

Depending on context, synonyms include ovate.

Antonyms for ovation

Common opposites include booing, jeering, hissing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include acclamation, cheer, applause, oration, ceremony, solemnity.

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