I applaud your decision to study medicine.
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Applaud
//əˈplɔd//
Synonyms for "applaud" (99 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (49)
Verb(20 words)
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4 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesderived
7 entriesentails
1 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
106 translations across 53 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- duartrokas verb (to express approval by clapping)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κροτέω verb (to express approval by clapping)
Arabic
1 entries- صَفَّقَ verb (to express approval by clapping)
Armenian
1 entries- ծափահարել verb (to express approval by clapping)
Asturian
1 entries- aplaudir verb (to express approval by clapping)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- alqışlamaq verb (to express approval by clapping)
- əl çalmaq verb (to express approval by clapping)
Belarusian
2 entries- апладзі́раваць verb (to express approval by clapping)
- пляска́ць verb (to express approval by clapping)
Bulgarian
4 entries- аплоди́рам verb (to express approval by clapping)
- одобря́вам verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- ръкопляска́м verb (to express approval by clapping)
- хва́ля verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
Catalan
1 entries- aplaudir verb (to express approval by clapping)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏓᏏᏛᏂᎭ verb (to express approval by clapping)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 拍手 verb (to express approval by clapping)
- 鼓掌 verb (to express approval by clapping)
Czech
1 entries- tleskat verb (to express approval by clapping)
Danish
2 entries- applaudere verb (to express approval by clapping)
- klappe verb (to express approval by clapping)
Dutch
3 entries- applaudisseren verb (to express approval by clapping)
- applaudisseren verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- klappen verb (to express approval by clapping)
Esperanto
1 entries- aplaŭdi verb (to express approval by clapping)
Estonian
1 entries- aplodeerima verb (to express approval by clapping)
Finnish
2 entries- aplodeerata verb (to express approval by clapping)
- taputtaa verb (to express approval by clapping)
French
4 entries- applaudir verb (to express approval by clapping)
- approuver verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- louer verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- ovationner verb (to express approval by clapping)
Galician
1 entries- aplaudir verb (to express approval by clapping)
German
4 entries- Beifall klatschen verb (to express approval by clapping)
- applaudieren verb (to express approval by clapping)
- befürworten verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- klatschen verb (to express approval by clapping)
Greek
2 entries- επικροτώ verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- χειροκροτώ verb (to express approval by clapping)
Hebrew
1 entries- הֵרִיעַ verb (to express approval by clapping)
Hindi
3 entries- ताली बजाना verb (to express approval by clapping)
- प्रशंसा करना verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- सराहना verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
Hungarian
4 entries- dicsér verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- helyesel verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- megtapsol verb (to express approval by clapping)
- tapsol verb (to express approval by clapping)
Ido
1 entries- aklamar verb (to express approval by clapping)
Italian
4 entries- applaudire verb (to express approval by clapping)
- approvare verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- congratularsi verb (to express approval by clapping)
- lodare verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
Japanese
1 entries- 拍手する verb (to express approval by clapping)
Korean
1 entries- 박수하다 verb (to express approval by clapping)
Latin
2 entries- applaudō verb (to express approval by clapping)
- plaudō verb (to express approval by clapping)
Latvian
3 entries- aplaudēt verb (to express approval by clapping)
- apsveikt verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- atzīt verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
Lithuanian
2 entries- paploti verb (to express approval by clapping)
- ploti verb (to express approval by clapping)
Macedonian
2 entries- аплауди́ра verb (to express approval by clapping)
- ракоплеска verb (to express approval by clapping)
Malayalam
2 entries- കയ്യടി verb (to express approval by clapping)
- കരഘോഷം verb (to express approval by clapping)
Mongolian
1 entries- алга таших verb (to express approval by clapping)
Māori
2 entries- pakipaki verb (to express approval by clapping)
- umere verb (to express approval by clapping)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- ushangiria verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- klappe verb (to express approval by clapping)
Persian
1 entries- کف زدن verb (to express approval by clapping)
Polish
3 entries- bić brawo verb (to express approval by clapping)
- klaskać verb (to express approval by clapping)
- oklaskiwać verb (to express approval by clapping)
Portuguese
2 entries- aplaudir verb (to express approval by clapping)
- aplaudir verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
Romanian
1 entries- aplauda verb (to express approval by clapping)
Russian
4 entries- аплоди́ровать verb (to express approval by clapping)
- одобря́ть verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- рукоплеска́ть verb (to express approval by clapping)
- хвали́ть verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- aplaudírati verb (to express approval by clapping)
- aplaudírati verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- аплауди́рати verb (to express approval by clapping)
- аплауди́рати verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
Slovak
1 entries- tlieskať verb (to express approval by clapping)
Slovene
2 entries- aplavdirati verb (to express approval by clapping)
- ploskati verb (to express approval by clapping)
Spanish
2 entries- aplaudir verb (to express approval by clapping)
- aplaudir verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
Swedish
2 entries- applådera verb (to express approval by clapping)
- klappa verb (to express approval by clapping)
Tajik
1 entries- кафкӯбӣ кардан verb (to express approval by clapping)
Thai
2 entries- ตบมือ verb (to express approval by clapping)
- ปรบ verb (to express approval by clapping)
Turkish
4 entries- alkışlamak verb (to express approval by clapping)
- alkışlamak verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- beğenmek verb (to praise, or express approval by words)
- el çırpmak verb (to express approval by clapping)
Ukrainian
3 entries- аплодува́ти verb (to express approval by clapping)
- плеска́ти verb (to express approval by clapping)
- рукоплеска́ти verb (to express approval by clapping)
Uzbek
1 entries- olqishlab chapak verb (to express approval by clapping)
Vietnamese
1 entries- vỗ tay verb (to express approval by clapping)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
I applaud your decision to quit smoking.
Source: tatoeba (29980)
As soon as the new teacher entered the classroom, the students began to applaud.
Source: tatoeba (271798)
The whole audience got up and started to applaud.
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