Definitions for accolades

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accolades ac·co·lade

Spelling: [ak-uh-leyd, -lahd; ak-uh-leyd, - Accolades is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 346 anagrams from letters in accolades (aaccdelos).

Definitions for accolades

noun

1. any award, honor, or laudatory notice:
2. a light touch on the shoulder with the flat side of the sword or formerly by an embrace, done in the ceremony of conferring knighthood.
3. the ceremony itself.
4. Music. a brace joining several staves.
5. Architecture. an archivolt or hood molding having more or less the form of an ogee arch. a decoration having more or less the form of an ogee arch, cut into a lintel or flat arch.
6. any award, honor, or laudatory notice:
7. a light touch on the shoulder with the flat side of the sword or formerly by an embrace, done in the ceremony of conferring knighthood.
8. the ceremony itself.
9. Music. a brace joining several staves.
10. Architecture. an archivolt or hood molding having more or less the form of an ogee arch. a decoration having more or less the form of an ogee arch, cut into a lintel or flat arch.

Origin of accolades

1615-25; French, derivative of a(c)colée embrace (with -ade -ade¹), noun use of feminine past participle of a(c)coler, Old French verbal derivative of col n

Examples for accolades

But this year, the cover image has been leaked, unveiling that Kate Upton has won the accolade for a second year straight.

I attended a special Council at Windsor to receive the "accolade."

He gives the accolade to our commander, and through him, to us all.

Her hand has touched them—it is an accolade—they are noble, now.

Thus he won the accolade of his peers as a worthy horse-man of the hills.

Marjory, do you remember when you sat on the throne in the cave, and gave me the accolade?

As of now, it is the only hotel that can boast this accolade.

By the way, why is special interests always shady while special needs is practically an accolade?

“Unsung Yugoslavian novelist” is not the sort of accolade that moves a book off of a shelf.

What has Michelle Obama, by contrast, done over the past year to merit her accolade?

I attended a special Council at Windsor to receive the "accolade."

By the way, why is special interests always shady while special needs is practically an accolade?

Thus he won the accolade of his peers as a worthy horse-man of the hills.

But this year, the cover image has been leaked, unveiling that Kate Upton has won the accolade for a second year straight.

“Unsung Yugoslavian novelist” is not the sort of accolade that moves a book off of a shelf.

Marjory, do you remember when you sat on the throne in the cave, and gave me the accolade?

As of now, it is the only hotel that can boast this accolade.

Her hand has touched them—it is an accolade—they are noble, now.

What has Michelle Obama, by contrast, done over the past year to merit her accolade?

He gives the accolade to our commander, and through him, to us all.