Definitions
Award, honor, or expression of praise.
Word origin
First use appears c. 1591 in the publications of Thomas Lodge, borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, via Vulgar Latin *accollō (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar) + -āta.
Used in a sentence
“The scientist received the highest accolade in her field for the groundbreaking discovery.”
“Winning the championship brought the team immense accolade from sports analysts worldwide.”
“This film is likely to pick up major accolades.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“High honor”8 letters
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