Definitions for lauds

lauds laud

Spelling: [lawd]
IPA: /lɔd/

Lauds is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in lauds (adlsu).

Definitions for lauds

noun

  1. a song or hymn of praise.
  2. lauds, (used with a singular or plural verb) Ecclesiastical. a canonical hour, marked especially by psalms of praise, usually recited with matins.

verb (used with object)

  1. to praise; extol.

Origin of lauds

1300-50; (v.) Middle English lauden Latin laudāre to praise, derivative of laus (stem laud-) praise; (noun) Middle English laude, back formation from laudes (plural) Late Latin, special use o

Examples for lauds

Clarendon, passim, especially his summary of lauds character.

You have a patient not very far away who lauds you to the skies.

He condemns the vices of his own age, and lauds the old Romans: Praef.

The mountains that divide the lauds they have passed o'er the crest.

He lauds the push for stricter regulations on interstate commerce and a range of effective compromises.

Zawahiri lauds the success of al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq in contrast.

He, with Ignatius and others, lauds celibacy as the holiest state.

Defense minister thanks U.S. and lauds Israeli achievements: "No other army in any country in the world has a system like it."

One with lauds and beeves, with rents and consols, mark you?

Yet those members of the cognitive elite that Murray lauds certainly know better.

Word Value for lauds
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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