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Webster 1913 Edition

Laud

Laud

,
Noun.
[L.
laus
,
laudis
. See
Laud
,
Verb.
I.
]
1.
High commendation; praise; honor; exaltation; glory.
“Laud be to God.”
Shak.
So do well and thou shalt have
laud
of the same.
Tyndals.
2.
A part of divine worship, consisting chiefly of praise; – usually in the
pl.
☞ In the Roman Catholic Church, the prayers used at daybreak, between those of matins and prime, are called lauds.
3.
Music or singing in honor of any one.

Laud

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Lauded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Lauding
.]
[L.
laudare
, fr.
laus
,
laudis
, praise. Cf.
Allow
.]
To praise in words alone, or with words and singing; to celebrate; to extol.
With all the company of heaven, we
laud
and magnify thy glorious name.
Book of Common Prayer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Laud

LAUD

,
Noun.
[L. laus, laudis; Gr. ; Eng. loud. See Loud.]
1.
Praise; commendation; an extolling in words; honorable mention. [Little used.]
2.
That part of divine worship which consists in praise.
3.
Music or singing in honor of any one.

LAUD

,
Verb.
T.
[L. laudo.] To praise in words alone, or with words and singing; to celebrate.

Definition 2025

Laud

Laud

See also: laud and laúd

Norman

Proper noun

Laud m

  1. A male given name

laud

laud

See also: Laud and laúd

English

Noun

laud ‎(plural lauds)

  1. Praise or glorification.
    • Shakespeare
      Laud be to God.
    • Tyndals
      So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same.
  2. Hymn of praise.
  3. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.

Translations

Verb

laud ‎(third-person singular simple present lauds, present participle lauding, simple past and past participle lauded)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to praise, to glorify
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke I:
      And hys mought was opened immediatly, and hys tonge, and he spake lawdynge god.

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Estonian

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Germanic *flauþ or *flaut. Compare Swedish flöte. Also compare Lithuanian plautas and Latvian plauts.

Noun

laud ‎(genitive laua, partitive lauda)

  1. board
  2. plank
  3. table

Declension

Derived terms

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin laus, laudem.

Noun

laud m ‎(plural lauds)

  1. praise, commendation

Related terms

Ilocano

Noun

laud

  1. west

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish lauta, Estonian laud.

Noun

laud

  1. board
  2. plank

Inflection

Inflection of laud
nominative sing. laud
genitive sing. laudan
partitive sing. laudad
partitive plur. laudoid
singular plural
nominative laud laudad
accusative laudan laudad
genitive laudan laudoiden
partitive laudad laudoid
essive-instructive laudan laudoin
translative laudaks laudoikš
inessive laudas laudoiš
elative laudaspäi laudoišpäi
illative ? laudoihe
adessive laudal laudoil
ablative laudalpäi laudoilpäi
allative laudale laudoile
abessive laudata laudoita
comitative laudanke laudoidenke
prolative laudadme laudoidme
approximative I laudanno laudoidenno
approximative II laudannoks laudoidennoks
egressive laudannopäi laudoidennopäi
terminative I ? laudoihesai
terminative II laudalesai laudoilesai
terminative III laudassai —
additive I ? laudoihepäi
additive II laudalepäi laudoilepäi

Derived terms

  • laudasine
  • čukalduzlaud
  • ikunlaud
  • lumilaud
  • möndlaud
  • potklaud
  • tedotuzlaud
  • tölaud
  • laudkund
  • laudsein

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “доска”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [la.ˈud]

Noun

laud ‎(plural lauds)

  1. lark (bird)

Declension

Hyponyms

  • hilaud
  • hilaudül
  • jilaud
  • jilaudül
  • laudil
  • laudül

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Etymology

From Old French lauder, from Latin laudō, from laus ‎(“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh₁wdʰ- ‎(“song, sound”).

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