éclat

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
Our little success will animate the king's party, and give it more _éclat_, perhaps, than it really merits.

View all »
Definitions (7)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (4)

  1. noun Great brilliance, as of performance or achievement.
  2. noun Conspicuous success.
  3. noun Great acclamation or applause.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

 

Tags

éclat hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 28 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. French, brilliance, from Old French esclat, splinter, from esclater, to burst out, splinter, probably of Germanic origin.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. French, from éclater, burst forth, from Old French esclater, shine, s'esclater, burst, from Old High German slīzan, Middle High German slīzen, split, burst, German schleissen = Anglo-Saxon slītan, English Slit, q. v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

Trivia · falsehood · kneeled · lax · tossed

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich