Accolades vs Congratulations - What's the difference?
accolades | congratulations |
Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
, title=
As nouns the difference between accolades and congratulations
is that accolades is while congratulations is .As a verb accolades
is (accolade).As an interjection congratulations is
expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.congratulations
English
Interjection
(en interjection)Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}