exclamation
/ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃən/ sustantivo B1En español: exclamación
- The act of loudly calling or crying out, for example, as in anger, grief or pain, joy, surprise, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- The act of loudly complaining or protesting; (countable) an instance of this; a complaint, an outcry, a protest.
- Synonym of interjection (“a phrase or word with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence but which serves to express emotion or as a filled pause”).
- Synonym of ecphonesis (”(uncountable) the making of an emotional utterance; (countable) an instance of this; an exclamatory phrase”); also, synonym of epiphonema (“(countable) an exclamatory phrase or reflection used to round off or summarize an argument or discourse”).
Plural exclamations
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The butler had given an exclamation of astonishment and was pointing at the dead man’s outstretched hand.
No; my pride is to see the accused pale, agitated, and as though beaten out of all composure by the fire of my eloquence.” Renée uttered a smothered exclamation.
A general exclamation of surprise ran round the table, with the exception of the elder Dantès, whose laugh displayed the still perfect beauty of his large white teeth.
A long silence was broken by a sudden exclamation from Holmes, who dashed at a cupboard, from which he emerged with a second yellow-covered volume in his hand.
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