Although she was merited with many an accolade, we still don’t know what she did to deserve them.
Source: tatoeba (10522452)
Accolade
//ˈæk.əˌleɪd//
Synonyms for "accolade" (54 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesdbpedia product
2 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
5 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Translations
60 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- аколада noun ((music) a brace used to join two or more staves)
- възхвала noun (an expression of approval; praise)
Catalan
2 entries- bescollada noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
- elogi noun (an expression of approval; praise)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 剑面击肩礼 noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
- 授予骑士称号 noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
- 拥吻礼 verb (To embrace or kiss)
- 授予骑士称号 verb (To confer a knighthood on)
Danish
4 entries- akkolade noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- akkolade noun (a special acknowledgment; an award)
- akkolade noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
- akkolade noun ((music) a brace used to join two or more staves)
Dutch
3 entries- accolade noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
- accolade noun ((music) a brace used to join two or more staves)
- ridderslag noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
Finnish
4 entries- huomionosoitus noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- kunnianosoitus noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- palkinto noun (a special acknowledgment; an award)
- ritariksilyönti noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
French
1 entries- accolade noun ((music) a brace used to join two or more staves)
Galician
3 entries- alaudo noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- gabanza noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- louvor noun (an expression of approval; praise)
German
4 entries- Akkolade noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
- Akkolade noun ((music) a brace used to join two or more staves)
- Anerkennung noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- Auszeichnung noun (a special acknowledgment; an award)
Italian
4 entries- arco inflesso noun ((architecture) an ornament)
- elogio noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- ordinazione noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
- riconoscimento noun (a special acknowledgment; an award)
Māori
1 entries- whakamanahau noun (an expression of approval; praise)
Polish
1 entries- akolada noun ((music) a brace used to join two or more staves)
Portuguese
4 entries- acolada noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
- elogio noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- louvor noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- reconhecimento noun (a special acknowledgment; an award)
Russian
4 entries- аккола́да noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
- аккола́да noun ((music) a brace used to join two or more staves)
- панеги́рик noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- похвала́ noun (an expression of approval; praise)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- priznánje noun (a special acknowledgment; an award)
- pȍhvala noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- по̏хвала noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- призна́ње noun (a special acknowledgment; an award)
Slovak
3 entries- ocenenie noun (a special acknowledgment; an award)
- ovácie noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- pasovanie noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
Spanish
4 entries- acolada noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
- elogio noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- espaldarazo noun (an expression of approval; praise)
- espaldarazo noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
Ukrainian
2 entries- акола́да noun (a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood)
- акола́да noun ((music) a brace used to join two or more staves)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
World champion and Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles has 19 medals to her name, but there's one accolade that's been out of her reach.
Source: tatoeba (11323131)
This film is likely to pick up major accolades.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 9 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.