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laud 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/lôd/,
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lauded, past participle; lauded, past tense; lauds, 3rd person singular present; lauding, present participle;
  1. Praise (a person or their achievements) highly, esp. in a public context
    • - the obituary lauded him as a great statesman and soldier
    • - her much lauded rendering of Lady Macbeth
Noun
  1. Praise
    • - all glory, laud, and honor to Thee
  1. praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"
  2. The word laúd is the Spanish word for lute. It is most commonly used to refer to a plectrum-plucked chordophone from Spain. It belongs to the cittern family of instruments. It has six double courses (i.e. twelve strings in pairs), similarly to the bandurria, but its neck is longer. ...
  3. (Lauding) Laudabiliter was a papal bull issued in 1155 by Adrian IV, the only Englishman to serve as Pope, giving the Angevin King Henry II of England the right to assume control over Ireland and establish Papal Supremacy over the heretofore independent Irish Church. ...
  4. Lauds is a divine office that takes place in the early morning hours and is one of the two major hours in the Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours. In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, it forms part of the Office of Matins. ...
  5. praise or glorification; hymn of praise; a prayer service following matins; to praise, to glorify
  6. (Lauds) The second hour of prayer, said early morning
  7. (lauds [LAWDZ]) morning prayers and readings
  8. lute. From Arabic al 'ud (العود) "the lute."
  9. (in  William Laud (archbishop of Canterbury))
  10. (v) - to praise. laudable (adj), laudatory (adj)
  11. Spanish lute with a flat back, 12 metal strings in 6 courses and a pear shaped body