hooray

Meanings

Interjection

• Used to express approval, joy or victory.

Noun

• A shout to signify victory.
• An expression of excitement.

Verb

• To shout an expression of excitement.

Related

Similar words

• hurrah

Origin

• Unknown, first attested in the late Possible etymologies:
• Alteration of huzzah. This is however questionable.
• From hurra in German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, húrra in Icelandic, hoera in Dutch.