exclamation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
A word expressing outcry; an interjection.
An exclamation mark.

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exclamation exclamations

Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclāmātiō, from exclāmō (“to cry out”) + -tiō.

exclamation point

exclamational exclamation mark exclamation point mark of exclamation note of exclamation

Polish: wykrzyknik

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