ovation
ovation
/əʊˈveɪʃn/
enthusiastic clapping by an audience as a sign of their approval to give somebody a huge/rapturous/rousing ovation
The soloist got a ten-minute standing ovation (= in which people stand up from their seats).
He received the longest ovation of the evening.
The final piece won her a rapturous ovation from the audience.
Collocations
adjective
verb + ovation
give somebody
preposition
to an ovation
ovation from
Word Origin
early 16th cent. (originally referring to a processional entrance into Ancient Rome by a victorious commander): from Latin ovatio(n-), from ovare ‘exult’. The word had the sense ‘exultation’ from the mid 17th to early 19th cent.