Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who offers congratulation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who offers congratulation.

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  • noun A person who congratulates

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Examples

  • If the congratulator is a married man, he hopes that his friend may enjoy as much happiness as he has found himself in the married state; if a bachelor, he assures him that, although unable hitherto to act up to his principles, he has always thought marriage the right thing.

    Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun 1860

  • The last is my favorite quote of the book because it hits on all of La Toya's major notes: that of the victim, of the self-congratulator, of the utterly clueless.

    Brother's keeper 2009

  • "I want to play more than the part of the good little congratulator, I want to do more than congratulating the other team in the first round of the playoffs," he said.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here 2008

  • "I want to play more than the part of the good little congratulator, I want to do more than congratulating the other team in the first round of the playoffs," he said.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008

  • As a day of congratulator remarks and endless celebration comes to a conclusion; I wonder to what amount are we going to hold ourselves responsible.

    Charlottesville Blogs 2008

  • But Wallace saw The Tube as the worst kind of trap, a tool for eliding the necessary details, for making an artist into a self-congratulator.

    PopMatters 2008

  • "I want to play more than the part of the good little congratulator, I want to do more than congratulating the other team in the first round of the playoffs."

    Baseball Prospectus 2008

  • "I want to play more than the part of the good little congratulator, I want to do more than congratulating the other team in the first round of the playoffs."

    Baseball Prospectus 2008

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