Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sudden, short utterance; an ejaculation.
- n. The part of speech that usually expresses emotion and is capable of standing alone.
- n. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as Ugh! or Wow!
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of throwing between; an interjecting.
- n. The act of ejaculating, exclaiming, or forcibly uttering.
- n. In grammar, an interjected or exclamatory word; a word thrown in between other words or expressions, but having no grammatical relation to them, or used independently, to indicate some access of emotion or passion, and commonly emphasized to the eye in writing by a mark of exclamation, as oh! ah! alas! hurrah! Interjections are regarded as constituting a part of speech by themselves, although they are properly no “part of speech,” but holophrastic utterances, originally more or less instinctive, though coming, like the rest of speech, to be used conventionally. Some interjections, however, are transformations or abbreviations of ordinary words, as alas, zounds, 'sdeath. gad. Abbreviated interjection
- n. A manner or means of expressing emotion with the effect of an interjection.
Wiktionary
- n. grammar An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
- n. An interruption; something interjected
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected.
- n. (Gram.) A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as
O !Alas !Ha ha !Begone ! etc. Compare Exclamation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion
- n. the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
Etymologies
- From Old French interjection (13c.), from Latin interiectiōnem, accusative singular of interiectiō ("throwing or placing between; interjection"), perfect passive participle of intericiō ("throw or place between"), from inter ("between") + iaciō ("throw"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Like the English hail (as in “Hail to the Chief”), the German interjection comes from the Old Norse word for whole”
“A manuscript I'm editing uses "for Christ sake" in dialogue as an interjection, which is fine in the context, but I can't find a decent reference for the most common spelling.”
“As the interjection is the least important part of speech in the English language, it will require but little attention.”
“The interjection was her customary specific for the cure of these little tricks of her blood.”
“The interjection is a word used in cries of pain, anger, sorrow, calling, &c.”
“The former deputy chief said that the reason for his interjection is his "concern" and”
“Perry. he was gone a long time before he come back with him. doctor Perry he took a look at me and sed poison ivory, so he got it did he. then he felt of my stomack and looked at by tung and felt my pulce and heard me grone and gave me a dose of castor oil and then he took out a little popsquirt the litlest i ever see and he sed i gess i shall have to give you a subteranian interjection. i thougt a interjection was a part of speach like alas and o and ah. ennyway that is what the grammar says. but this wasent that kind for the docter run the sharp point of that little popsquert whitch was jest as sharp as a needle rite into my arm. it hurt like time and i hollered but after he had pulled it out i began to feel kind of lite and floty and the ferst i gnew the pane was gone and i dident know nothing more. well the next morning i felt a little beter but not enuf to get up and not enuf to eat but after a while”
“In "The Right Girl," there's no substitute for the sound of a full violin section in the dance section, or for the sound of a real, rough brass interjection which is built into the song.”
“a noun, a verb, a preposition, a conjunction, and an interjection, that is, the same word, without any structural change, so that it is difficult for a child to discriminate and label the word.”
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Tweets
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seanahan Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. Oct 31, 2007
kewpid An interjection is quite often an opportunity to be rude. Oct 30, 2007
seanahan What? No! Oct 27, 2007
sonofgroucho Always think this word sounds kinda rude for some reason. Oct 27, 2007