Congratulates vs Congratulations - What's the difference?
congratulates | congratulations |
(congratulate)
to express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for
Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.
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As a verb congratulates
is (congratulate).As an interjection congratulations is
expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.As a noun congratulations is
.congratulates
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Verb
(head)congratulate
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Verb
(congratulat)Derived terms
* congratulable * congratulant * congratulating * congratulation * congratulations * congratulative * congratulator * congratulatory English reporting verbs ----congratulations
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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?}}
