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English
Etymology
From Middle English admiracion, borrowed from Middle French admiration, or directly from Latin admīrātiō, from prefix ad- (“to, towards”) + mīrō (“I look at”) + -ātiō. Compare the verb admire, and US dialectal terms miration and mirate.
Pronunciation
Noun
admiration (countable and uncountable, plural admirations)
- A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful
admiration of a war hero
They looked at the landscape in admiration.
1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 1, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar, , →OCLC, book 7, pages 4-5:For in this Instance, Life most exactly resembles the Stage, since it is often the same Person who represents the Villain and the Heroe; and he who engages your Admiration To-day, will probably attract your Contempt To-Morrow.
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 6, in Pride and Prejudice: , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC:A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
1939 April 14, John Steinbeck, chapter 19, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC; Compass Books edition, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, 1967, →OCLC:[…] in the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to a storekeeper’s contempt, and all his admirations are exactly opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.
- (obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman?
Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour
Of other your new pranks.
1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 270-272:[…] Admiration seized
All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend,
Wondering;
- (obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 1:Now, good Lafeu,
Bring in the admiration; that we with thee
May spend our wonder too, or take off thine
By wondering how thou took’st it.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
adoration; appreciation
- Albanian: admirim (sq)
- Arabic: إِعْجَاب m (ʔiʕjāb)
- Armenian: հիացմունք (hy) (hiacʻmunkʻ)
- Asturian: almiración (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: valeh olma
- Bulgarian: възхище́ние (bg) n (vǎzhišténie), адмира́ция (bg) f (admirácija)
- Catalan: admiració (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 贊賞/赞赏 (zh) (zànshǎng), 欽佩/钦佩 (zh) (qīnpèi), 佩服 (zh) (pèifu)
- Czech: obdiv m
- Danish: beundring c
- Dutch: bewondering (nl) f
- Esperanto: admiro, admirado
- Estonian: imetlus
- Finnish: ihailu (fi)
- French: admiration (fr) f
- Galician: admiración (gl) f
- German: Bewunderung (de) f
- Greek: θαυμασμός (el) m (thavmasmós)
- Hebrew: פֶּלֶא (he) m (pele)
- Hindi: तारीफ़ f (tārīf), सफत f (saphat), उपमा (hi) f (upmā)
- Hungarian: bámulat (hu), csodálat (hu), rajongás (hu)
- Italian: ammirazione (it) f
- Japanese: 賞賛 (ja) (しょうさん, shōsan), 感心 (ja) (かんしん, kanshin)
- Korean: 감탄 (ko) (gamtan)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: heyranî (ku) f
- Latin: admīrātiō f
- Latvian: apbrīna
- Luxembourgish: Bewonnerung f
- Mirandese: admirança f, admiraçon f
- Mongolian: гайхал (mn) (gajxal)
- Norwegian: beundring (no)
- Occitan: admiracion (oc) f
- Papiamentu: atmirashon
- Persian: تحسین (fa) (tahsin)
- Polish: podziw (pl) m, admiracja (pl) f
- Portuguese: admiração (pt) f
- Romanian: admirație (ro) f, admirare (ro) f
- Russian: восхище́ние (ru) n (vosxiščénije), восто́рг (ru) m (vostórg)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дивљење n
- Roman: divljenje n
- Slovak: obdiv m
- Spanish: admiración (es) f
- Swahili: abos
- Swedish: beundran (sv)
- Tagalog: paghanga
- Thai: การชื่นชม (th) (gaan chêun chom)
- Turkish: hayranlık (tr)
- Ukrainian: захо́плення n (zaxóplennja)
- Vietnamese: sự khâm phục
- Welsh: edmygedd m
- West Frisian: bewûndering
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin admirātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
admiration f (plural admirations)
- admiration
Plein d’admiration pour son adversaire, chacun lève sa propre visière : "Elsseneur ! ...", "Réginald ! ..."- Full of admiration for his enemy, each raised his own visor: "Elsinore!" ... "Reginald!" ...
- (Les Chants de Maldoror - Chant V)
Descendants
Further reading
Scots
Noun
admiration (plural admirations)
- admiration
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