Kudos vs Acclaim - What's the difference?
kudos | acclaim |
Praise; accolades.
(proscribed) English plurals.
Credit for one's achievements.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (archaic) To shout; to call out.
To shout approval; to express great approval.
* 1911 , (Saki), The Chronicles of Clovis
*:The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of being a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War, but he was more than satisfied with the execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece.
(rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
* A glad acclaiming train. - Thomson
(obsolete) To claim.
To declare by acclamations.
* While the shouting crowd / Acclaims thee king of traitors. - Smollett
(Canada, politics) To elect to an office by having no opposition.
As nouns the difference between kudos and acclaim
is that kudos is praise; accolades while acclaim is (poetic) an acclamation; a shout of applause.As a verb acclaim is
(archaic|transitive) to shout; to call out.kudos
English
Noun
(-)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
