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kudos
/ˈkuˌdoʊz/
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What does kudos mean?
noun
- Praise; accolades.
- Credit for one's achievements.
interjection
- An interjection indicating praise or approval or as an acknowledgement of a laudable achievement.
More meanings (4)
verb
- (informal) To give praise or accolades.
- (informal) third-person singular simple present indicative of kudo
noun
- plural of kudo
proper noun
- plural of Kudo
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkuˌdoʊz/
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Lyell has read about half of the volume in clean sheets, and gives me very great kudos.
“To go back to our conversation, doctor,” Fred began while he waited for the first steam to blow off his coffee; “why don’t you make up your mind to go to Washington? There’d be no fight made against you. I needn’t say the United Breweries would back you. There’d be some kudos coming to us, too; backing a reform candidate.”
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So much is this the case, that even when she does not in any way perform this function there is still a curious tendency for the kudos of the function still to hang about her, and for her mere potentiality in the direction of a duty which she may never fulfil, to be confused in her own estimation and that of society with the actual fulfilment of that function.