0 present participle of acclaim
1 to give public approval and praise:
She was universally/widely/publicly acclaimed for her contribution to the discovery.
She is being acclaimed (= publicly recognized) as the greatest dancer of her generation.
The rhetoric linking these injustices was populist in orientation, returning power to the people and acclaiming the virtues of selfdetermination.
The triple bow indicated for the first time a mutuality of sentiment: the people were recognizing and acclaiming their monarchy; the monarch was showing recognition and gratitude to the people.
But a moment ago we were acclaiming a great feat of arms, a glorious victory.
We should proceed with a combination of approaches, including prosecution, notices, naming and shaming and naming and acclaiming, where appropriate.
Far from acclaiming it as a success, they want to see it fail.
Ever since the nationalisation of the railways became an accomplished fact we have heard speeches from the benches opposite in every transport debate acclaiming the supposed virtues of decentralisation.
The troops returned to their barracks, acclaiming the king as a constitutional one.
