| 单词 | felicitation |
| 释义 | felicitation (once / 17485 pages) n A felicitation is when you congratulate someone. Your best friend might express his felicitation on your birthday by giving you flowers. You'll almost always see the noun felicitation in its plural form, felicitations. In fact, when your neighbors announce their upcoming marriage, you can say, "Felicitations!" just as you might say, "Congratulations!" Either way, you're expressing your good wishes. Felicitation comes from the verb felicitate, which means "congratulate," and has a Latin root, felicitas, "happiness," from felix, "happy or fortunate." WORD FAMILYfelicitation: felicitations+/felicitate: felicitated, felicitates, felicitating, felicitation/felicitous: felicitously, felicitousness/felicity: felicitate, felicities, felicitous, infelicity/infelicitous: infelicitously/infelicity: infelicities, infelicitous USAGE EXAMPLESArguably the most glowing felicitation came from a woman who said she thinks Hillary’s “a liar and a murderer, and I like your hair.” Salon(Oct 27, 2016) Naturally, Hillary's nearest and dearest offered their felicitations: US News(Oct 26, 2016) Perhaps, however, the traditional fourth anniversary gift of “fruit and flowers” might assist our financial reform felicitations. New York Times(Jul 25, 2014) 1n (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another Syn|Hyper congratulation expression, verbal expression, verbalism the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions 2n the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration Syn|Hyper congratulation speech act the use of language to perform some act |
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