| praise |
| 1. n. commendation; favourable representation in words | |
| 2. n. worship | |
| 3. v. To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship. | |
| Be sure to praise Bobby for his excellent work at school this week. | |
| Some of the passengers were heard praising God as the stricken plane landed safely. | |
| accolades |
| 1. n. plural of accolade | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of accolade | |
| accolade |
| 1. n. An expression of approval; praise. | |
| 2. n. A special acknowledgment; an award. | |
| 3. n. An embrace of greeting or salutation. | |
| 4. n. (historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword. | |
| 5. n. (music) A brace used to join two or more staves. | |
| 6. n. (US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of woun | |
| 7. n. (architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. Such accolades are either | |
| 8. n. synonym of curly bracket | |
| 9. v. To embrace or kiss in salutation. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on. | |
| 11. v. To confer praise or awards on. | |
| an accoladed novel | |
