exclamation

[ek-skluh-mey-shuhn]

noun

1. the act of exclaiming; outcry; loud complaint or protest.

   The speech was continually interrupted by rude exclamations.

   Synonyms: vociferation, ejaculation, cry

2. an interjection.

3. Rhetoric.,  ecphonesis.

exclamation

/ ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃən /

noun

1. an abrupt, emphatic, or excited cry or utterance; interjection; ejaculation

2. the act of exclaiming

Other Word Forms

• exclamational adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of exclamation¹

1350–1400; Middle English exclamacio ( u ) n < Latin exclāmātiōn- (stem of exclāmātiō ) a calling out, equivalent to exclāmāt ( us ) (past participle of exclāmāre; exclaim ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

Fox News has never been bothered by the Trumpian approach to social media, with its all-caps posts and multiple exclamation points.

From Los Angeles Times

"It was wild, but it worked... He's the good kind of crazy," she said, calling her boyfriend "a human exclamation point".

From BBC

A six-time national champion and three-time world champion, Chen put an exclamation point on his career with a dominant performance in Beijing.

From Los Angeles Times

Five consecutive birdies to finish his round gave the watching crowd what they had hoped for with a monster putt on the 18th providing the exclamation point to the piece of history.

From BBC

"There was a magic and majesty to it," he says, calling it an "absolute exclamation mark of who we are in this part of the world".

From BBC