exclamation

Meaning

Noun

• A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
• A word expressing outcry; an interjection
• A clause type used to make an exclamatory statement: What a mess they made!; How stupid I was!
• The sign "!" by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked.

Related

Similar words

• exclamation mark, exclamation point

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclamatio, from ex + clamare