laud
pronunciation
How to pronounce laud in British English:
UK [lɔːd]
How to pronounce laud in American English:
US [lɔːd]
-
- Verb:
- praise, glorify, or honor
Word Origin
- laud (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French lauder "praise, extol," from Latin laudare "to praise, commend, honor, extol, eulogize," from laus (genitive laudis) "praise, fame glory." Probably cognate with Old English leoð "song, poem, hymn," from Proto-Germanic *leuthan (cognates: Old Norse ljoð "strophe," German Lied "song," Gothic liuþon "to praise"), and from an echoic PIE root *leu-. Related: Lauded; lauding.
Example
- 1. Just five years ago the notion that wired , a trendy technology magazine , would laud the tories as online pioneers would have been fanciful .
- 2. The chinese press used to laud foxconn for creating jobs , but the firm has become an object of criticism and undercover investigations .
- 3. The two countries laud their booming bilateral trade , which should reach $ 60 billion this year .
- 4. The bloc is stepping up efforts to improve energy efficiency , which environmentalists and economists laud as the most cost-effective way to combat global warming .
- 5. There are some who laud the birth of a " beijing consensus " to rival the previously omnipotent " washington consensus " .