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hurrah

C2+ Topic:General Vocabulary

Also spelled Hooroar, hooroaring, and hooroars

US /həˈrɑ/ UK /hʊˈrɑː/

Meanings

  1. 1
    intj

    a shout of joy, triumph, or approval

    The crowd let out a deafening hurrah as the team scored.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 intj · a shout of joy, triumph, or... hoorayhuzzahcheeryaybravohurray
Opposites
boo
Word family
Related forms hoorayhuzzah

Etymology

An alteration of earlier huzza, a shout of joy or encouragement, probably of imitative origin and reinforced by German and Scandinavian hurra.

Topics

General Vocabulary

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