accoladeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

• First attested in the 1620s.
• (award, praise): First attested in 1852.
• Borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, from Vulgar Latin accolāre (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar).

発音

• (Received 発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.ə.ˌleɪd/, /ˌæk.ə.ˈlɑd/

名詞

accolade (複数形 accolades)

Accolade, early 16th century (France).

1. An expression of approval; praise.
2. A special acknowledgment; an award.

   This film is likely to pick up major accolades.

   • 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Rooney led Manchester United up the Wembley steps to collect the FA Cup and add a missing medal to his collection - a richly deserved accolade.

3. An embrace of greeting or salutation.
4. (historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
5. (music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
6. (US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954. Service of civilians who died overseas or as a result of injury or disease contracted while serving in a civilian capacity with the United States Armed Forces during the dates and/or in areas prescribed is in like manner recognized.
7. (architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. Such accolades are either plain or adorned with rich moldings, and are a frequent motive of decoration on the lintels of doors and windows of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially in secular architecture.
8. Synonym of curly bracket

同意語

• (expression of approval または praise): panegyric

関連する語

• collar

参照

• (4) https://web.archive.org/web/20060209015723/http://www.afms1.belvoir.army.mil/dictionary/a.htm#accolade

動詞

accolade (三人称単数 現在形 accolades, 現在分詞 accolading, 過去形および過去分詞形 accoladed)

1. (transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
2. (transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on.
3. (transitive) To confer praise or awards on.

   an accoladed novel