Congratulation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of expressing joy or acknowledgment, as for the achievement or good fortune of another.
  • n. An expression of such joy or acknowledgment. Often used in the plural: sent him my congratulations on winning the award.
  • interjection. Used to express such joy or acknowledgment: I heard you got a promotion. Congratulations!
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of congratulating.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of congratulating, or expressing to a person gratification or good wishes at his success or happiness, or on account of an event deemed auspicious; words used in congratulating; felicitation.
  • n. Synonyms Congratulation, Felicitation. Congratulation, like its verb congratulate, implies an actual feeling of pleasure in another's happiness or good fortune; while felicitation (with felicitate) rather refers to the expression on our part of a belief that the other is fortunate, felicitations being complimentary expressions intended to make the fortunate person well pleased with himself.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration
  • n. (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another
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