huzzah
Americaninterjection
noun
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the exclamation “huzzah.”
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an instance of giving praise or applause; accolade.
The newspaper's review was one big huzzah for the new movie.
verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
interjection
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What does huzzah! Huzzah is a word to shout when you want to celebrate something.Huzzah is an interjection, meaning it’s a term used to express emotion, often outside of a sentence.Huzzah is sometimes spelled huzza. Similar and related words are hurrah, hoorah, hooray, and hurray (all of which probably derive from or were influenced by huzzah). All of these words are used in the same way—as a celebratory exclamation (something to shout in celebration).Huzzah started as something to shout out loud, but today it’s probably pretty rare for people to literally shout “Huzzah!” It sounds very old-timey—perhaps even more so than hurrah—and people are more into yelling woo! and woo-hoo! But huzzah is still used as an interjection in informal, conversational writing, such as social media posts and texts. To show appreciation for something in particular, you might write huzzah for followed by that thing, as in Huzzah for three-day weekends!Huzzah can be used as a verb meaning to shout huzzah.It can also be used to refer to a cheer of huzzah (as in a big huzzah from the crowd) or to an instance of praise (as in You got quite the huzzah from the boss today).Example: Huzzah! The package I ordered is here!
Other Word Forms
- unhuzzahed adjective
Etymology
Origin of huzzah
1565–75; variant of earlier hussa, hissa sailors' cry; hoise
Example Sentences
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“Huzzah! Yippee! My joy I cannot smother./ I speak to thee, thou &*@#er of a mother.”
From Washington Post
On one hand, he intends to ask his fellow G-7 leaders to endorse the common goal of vaccinating the entire world by the end of 2022 — what he says would be “the single greatest feat in medical history” — to which one can only reply, “Huzzah!”
From Washington Post
Here’s another huzzah for delicious, cheap wine in the environmentally friendly box format — in this case, a tasty barbera from Piedmont in northern Italy that wants to be your “house red.”
From Washington Post
Huzzah to the mongrels: McKean won.
From Slate
Dalton Newkirk, 24, of Highland, Illinois, was in Huzzah Creek when he began to struggle in the water Saturday evening, went under and did not resurface, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
From Washington Times
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