Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Acclaim or praise for exceptional achievement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Glory; fame; renown; praise.
- v. rare, rare To praise; to extol; to glorify.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an expression of approval and commendation
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek κῦδος (kudos, "praise, renown"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek kūdos, magical glory. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Schools that successfully encourage high-impact activities win kudos from the National Survey of Student Engagement.”
Internships, study abroad, community service enhance learning
“At 5 pm or so they let us in, and once again kudos to Soldier Field for maintaining calm.”
We Take A Break From Our Regularly Scheduled Programming To Present.... U2!
“This came after Jones had received some kudos from the coaching staff for making progress at his natural position on defense.”
“Opened in 2006, the 52-story tower is New York City's first green building and has won kudos from the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Green Building Council, among others.”
The Huffington Post: Florence Hudson: Smarter Buildings Make for a Sustainable Future
“This is not the first judge nominated by Obama that received kudos from the right.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ed DuMont Nominated for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
“The decision won kudos from the business community and scathing criticism from a coalition of liberal groups that had championed the bill as a basic worker right.”
The Wall Street Journal: Quinn Sinks Plan to Require Paid Sick Leave
“Earlier in the month, The Hurt Locker upset Avatar to win kudos from the Producers Guild, perhaps the guild most likely to favor the big budget wonder of Avatar.”
“I took a trip to SD for pheashants and had a blast (pun intented) and got kudos from the guide for my shooting skills.”
“However, the idea that the kudos distribution system can be corrupted such that all or even the majority of a work's kudos is actually unwarranted hype born of bribes and bandwagons is just as naive.”
“First off, critics are just a subset of writers, really, and the kudos distribution system of the strange fiction community makes the system more of a network of peers than the hierarchy of the classic literary establishment where kudos is bestowed by academic/journalistic authorities.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kudos’.
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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jaydrox's list
Mah list!
mediocracy, captivatingly, devastatingly, dazedly, heavenly, flawless, copious, conviction, synoptic, amalgamation, prefatory, precursory and 150 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 567 more...
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•Open List: Plural-Looking Singular N...
This came up on auroch, which is a misspelling of aurochs.
aurochs, series, corps, species, kudos, bitumen, caries, lens, crossroads, means, vertebra, scissors and 7 more...
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[Open] Frequently confused and misused
Words that are often used to mean something other than what they mean to lexicographers.
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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parlerodermime's Words
loquacious, orange, lackadaisical, rhythm, esoterrorist, contrary, enchanted, extraordinary, nymph, chatter, incessant, time and 168 more...
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vozcelik's Words
cranny, tummy, nook, sinister, cajole, frugal, chafe, wimp, booger, patriarchy, indifference, mire and 162 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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GRE
juncture, keen, kindle, kinetic, knell, kudos, lament, lampoon, languid, lapidary, larceny, largess and 228 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for kudos.
reesetee *preens (2 years late)* Apr 13, 2010
bilby Great comment by reesetee though. That's our boy! Apr 9, 2010
chelster Stpeter is correct (see comment below photo). Apr 9, 2010
nuxiy Norwegian equivalent to the concept of Digg Mar 25, 2009
reesetee Who put his eyeliner on, though? What a mess. Jan 22, 2008
sionnach Kould that krazy-looking, kudzu-munching, kudu have kuru? Let's hope not. Because there's nothing like a spongiform encephelopathy to put a krimp in one's morning. Jan 22, 2008
mollusque Nope. It's a kudu. Jan 22, 2008
john Is this not a kudo?:
Jan 22, 2008
stpeter A singular, naturally (there is no such thing as a "kudo"!). It's borrowed directly from the ancient Greek word for praise, and it's pronounced "ku-doss", not "ku-doze". Jan 22, 2008