praise

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: prāz (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /pɹeɪz/ (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /pɹɛjz/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /pɹæɪz/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /pɾez/, [pɾeːz] (Wales, without the pane–pain merger) IPA(key): /pɾeiz/ Rhymes: -eɪz Homophones: prays, preys === Etymology 1 === From Middle English praise, preyse, from the verb (see below). Doublet of prize. Displaced native Middle English lof from Old English lof (“praise”) and Middle English loenge, loange from Old French löenge, löange (“praise”). ==== Noun ==== praise (countable and uncountable, plural praises) Commendation; favourable representation in words. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:praise Antonym: blame Worship, glorification, adoration. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:worship ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English praisen, preisen, from Old French proisier, preisier (“to value, prize”), from Late Latin pretiō (“to value, prize”) from pretium (“price, worth, reward”). Displaced native Middle English herien from Old English herian (“to praise”). ==== Verb ==== praise (third-person singular simple present praises, present participle praising, simple past and past participle praised) To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship. Synonyms: exalt, applaud, extol, salute; see also Thesaurus:glorify, Thesaurus:to worship Antonym: blame ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Further reading === “praise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “praise”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === Pearis, Persia, perais, Parise, Paresi, Paries, aspire, spirea, paires, paries, Arispe == Irish == === Adjective === praise inflection of pras: feminine genitive singular comparative degree === Mutation === == Scottish Gaelic == === Noun === praise f genitive singular of prais