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The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.
Michelle Shocked

Meaning of "adulation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ADULATION

adulation  [ˌædjʊˈleɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADULATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adulation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ADULATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

adulation

Flattery

Flattery is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with the subject. Historically, flattery has been used as a standard form of discourse when addressing a king or queen. In the Renaissance, it was a common practice among writers to flatter the reigning monarch, as Edmund Spenser flattered Queen Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare flattered King James I in Macbeth and Niccolò Machiavelli flattered Lorenzo II de' Medici, ruler of Florence and Duke of Urbino, in The Prince. Flattery is also used in pick-up lines when attempting to initiate romantic courtship. Most associations with flattery, however, are negative. Negative descriptions of flattery range at least as far back in history as The Bible. In the Divine Comedy, Dante depicts flatterers wading in human excrement, stating that their words were the equivalent of excrement, in the 8th Circle of Hell. An insincere flatterer is a stock character in many literary works. Examples include Wormtongue from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Goneril and Regan from King Lear, and Iago from Othello.

Definition of adulation in the English dictionary

The definition of adulation in the dictionary is obsequious flattery or praise; extreme admiration.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADULATION


calculation
ˌkælkjʊˈleɪʃən
cancellation
ˌkænsɪˈleɪʃən
circulation
ˌsɜːkjʊˈleɪʃən
compilation
ˌkɒmpɪˈleɪʃən
correlation
ˌkɒrɪˈleɪʃən
formulation
ˌfɔːmjʊˈleɪʃən
installation
ˌɪnstəˈleɪʃən
insulation
ˌɪnsjʊˈleɪʃən
isolation
ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən
legislation
ˌlɛdʒɪsˈleɪʃən
manipulation
məˌnɪpjʊˈleɪʃən
musculation
ˌmʌskjʊˈleɪʃən
mutilation
ˌmjuːtɪˈleɪʃən
population
ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən
regulation
ˌrɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən
relation
rɪˈleɪʃən
simulation
ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪʃən
translation
trænsˈleɪʃən
ventilation
ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃən
violation
ˌvaɪəˈleɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADULATION

adularescence
adularescent
adularia
adulate
adulator
adulatory
Adullamite
adult
adult education
adult education centre
Adult Training Centre
adulterant
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adulteration
adulterator
adulterer
adulteress
adulteries
adulterine
adulterise

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADULATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of adulation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ADULATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «adulation» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of adulation

Translation of «adulation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADULATION

Find out the translation of adulation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of adulation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adulation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

阿谀奉承
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adulación
570 millions of speakers

English

adulation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मनुहार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التملق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

низкопоклонство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adulação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তোষণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

adulation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Adulation
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verherrlichung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

お世辞
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불행
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adulation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bợ đở
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தத்தெடுத்தது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रेमळपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yaltaklanma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

adulazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pochlebstwo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

низькопоклонство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adulare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κολακεία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

adulation
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

adulation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

adulation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adulation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADULATION»

The term «adulation» is regularly used and occupies the 85.736 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADULATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adulation

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10 QUOTES WITH «ADULATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word adulation.
1
Ed Asner
Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
2
Maria Bamford
I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.
3
Fawn M. Brodie
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
4
Genie Francis
I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'
5
Akshay Kumar
I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family.
6
Sugar Ray Leonard
Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick.
7
Jenny Shipley
I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.
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Michelle Shocked
The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.
9
Scott Stossel
I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.
10
Linus Torvalds
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADULATION»

Discover the use of adulation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adulation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Adulation
Celebrity screenwriter Danny Masters has the world at his feet.
Elisa Lorello, 2012
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The Oxford Anthology of Tudor Drama
Scena Quinta (Avarice, Adulation.) Avarice Such greedy, covetous folk as now of days been, I trow, before these present days were never seen. An honest man can go in no place ofthe street But he shall, I think, with an hundred beggars meet .
Greg Walker, 2014
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The English Moralities from the Point of View of Allegory
Avarice calls in the proffered friends and introduces them, with some serious blunders on the part of Adulation, who finds it very difficult to repress his real nature. A compact is made, and then Respublica retires to give her new counsellors an ...
4
The Depleted Self: Sin in a Narcissistic Age
This profile indicates that men struggle with certain narcissistic tendencies and needs: the desire for adulation and admiration (pride), the envy of persons who receive the adulation that one covets for oneself, and an attitude of apathy or lack of ...
Donald Capps, 1993
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The Religious Magazine, Or Spirit of the Foreign Theological ...
ON ADULATION AND CALUMNY. The painful circumstances which have recently occurred with reference to some of our most valuable Societies, suggested to a meeting of Ministers the importance of inquiring whethor Adulation or Calumny ...
6
Random Musings: Reflections of a Black Intellectual
The quandary germane to Displaced Adulation is not merely that society swindles one into following prescribed role models, for that hardly presents an insurmountable challenge and only scratches the surface. In its most authentic form, the ...
Bernard Grenway, 2011
7
The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy
... Algernon, 63 Siena, 43 signore: addressing of, 46-47; admirapeal to My Fellow Citizens (Labini), vii, 146 servants: adulation and, 8, 45-46, 60 (see also adulation); Aristotle on, tion and, 16, 35-36, 42, 58, 61-64, 106, 112, 119; adulation and, ...
Maurizio Viroli, 2012
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10,000 Dreams Interpreted
Adulation. To dream that you seek adulation, foretells that you will pompously fill unmerited positions of honor. If you offer adulation, you will expressly part with some dear belonging in the hope of furthering material interests.
Gustavus Hindman
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From Revolution to Fads: The Progress of Modernity
The attention turned to the "overman" was limited mostly to adulation, as has been said; for without a symbolic quality similar to that of Jesus Christ, such attention did not find the reverberations by which it could develop into reverence and ...
Henry Berry, 2001
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English Synonymes explained, in alphabetical order; with ...
Adulation can never be ractised without falsehood; its means are hypocrisy an lying, its end private interest; ' The servile and excessive adulation of the senate soon convinced Tiberius that the Roman spirit had suffered a total change under  ...
George Crabb, 1826

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADULATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adulation is used in the context of the following news items.
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More than 1 million expected at pope's Mass in South America
Along Francis' motorcade route into Quito, the throngs followed chants of adulation for the pontiff with jeers of "Correa out!" when the president's ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
2
Burt's Bees co-founder Burt Shavitz dies at age 80
There, he was greeted with the kind of adulation that seemed more likely to belong to a movie star than a backwoods beekeeper. He shrugged ... «Bangor Daily News, Jul 15»
3
Greek Referendum — Live
If the coming collision between Mr. Tsipras and his lenders leads to Greek debt default, bank failures and euro exit, Sunday's adulation could ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
4
Leave the Ballot Blank -- The Greek Choice for Europe
Did they not understand that after several centuries of adulation and cross-cultural pollination, Germany's heart-felt response to the hubristic ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
5
Dunedin awash in blue and gold
The mood around the crowd varied from pure adulation, as team members greeted them, to relief that the team had finally won the tournament. «Radio New Zealand, Jul 15»
6
Stone Cold Weirdo Carli Lloyd Leads US Into World Cup Final
Howler asked Lloyd about her thoughts on the world that female athletes inhabit, and perhaps why she'd never get all the adulation she ... «VICE, Jul 15»
7
Babur, Timur and Shastri: as Modi visits Tashkent, a short history of …
Despite this retrospective adulation, Babur didn't have an easy time in his homeland. Although Babur is descended from the fearsome Timur, ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
8
Formula 1's great British heroes
... in 1992, went toe-to-toe with two titans of F1 - Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost - and his exciting, fighting style won him enormous adulation. «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
9
Hartson: Adam Matthews lured to Sunderland by first team football
"It can be a wrench to leave because the adulation you receive everywhere you go in Glasgow. "To play in front of those magnificent 60,000 ... «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
10
Mike Budenholzer: Top 5 Coach in the NBA?
With the adulation coming from the Atlanta faithful and deep-rooted respect coming from his colleagues in the Association, has Atlanta Hawks ... «Atlanta All Day, Jul 15»

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