accolade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: First use appears c. 1591 in the publications of Thomas Lodge, borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, via Vulgar Latin *accollō (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar) + -āta.
Inflected forms:
form: accolades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: accolades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accolading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accoladed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: accoladed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An expression of approval; praise.
pos: noun
examples: The scientist received the highest accolade in her field for the groundbreaking discovery.
Winning the championship brought the team immense accolade from sports analysts worldwide.
gloss: A special acknowledgment; an award.
pos: noun
examples: This film is likely to pick up major accolades.
Rooney led Manchester United up the Wembley steps to collect the FA Cup and add a missing medal to his collection - a richly deserved accolade.
gloss: An embrace of greeting or salutation.
pos: noun
examples: […] for the tears stood in the old gentleman's eyes, when, having first shaken Edward heartily by the hand in the English fashion, he embraced him a-la-mode Françoise, and kissed him on both sides of the face; while the hardness of his gripe, and the quantity of Scotch snuff which his accolade communicated, called corresponding drops of moisture to the eyes of his guest.
gloss: A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: “Rise, Sir Miles Hendon, Knight,” said the King, gravely—giving the accolade with Hendon’s sword—“rise, and seat thyself. Thy petition is granted. Whilst England remains, and the crown continues, the privilege shall not lapse.”
As he had already told him, he said, there was no chapel in the castle, nor was it needed for what remained to be done, for, as he understood the ceremonial of the order, the whole point of being dubbed a knight lay in the accolade and in the slap on the shoulder, and that could be administered in the middle of a field;[…].
It was in the queer little Church of Vera Cruz, beneath the castle, that the Knights Templar performed their secret rites of chivalry, standing vigil over their arms all night, in all the mysterious splendour of seneschal, gonfalon, and accolade.
gloss: A brace used to join two or more staves.
pos: noun
gloss: A written presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of curly bracket.
pos: noun
gloss: To embrace or kiss in salutation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To confer a knighthood on.
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
gloss: To confer praise or awards on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: an accoladed novel
Related words: collar
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 授奖于