gratulationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɡɹætjʊˈleɪʃən/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃən/
  • 韻: -eɪʃən
  • ハイフネーション: gra‧tu‧la‧tion

名詞

gratulation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 gratulations)

1. (now rare) A feeling of happiness and satisfaction; joy, especially at one's good fortune.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 206:

     Shattuck, all unaccustomed to the practical phenomena of digging, apprehended only cause of gratulation that the investigation was to be the less hindered.

2. (archaic) The expression of pleasure at someone else's success or luck; congratulation.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     all Heav’n, And happie Constellations on that houre / Shed thir selectest influence;
     the Earth Gave sign of gratulation

   • 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Death of John Adams, page 191:

     —The chorus fell
     In gratulation on a patriarch's ear,
     Who in the bosom of his sylvan home
     With dignity reposed.