1. Noun
A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
2. Noun
A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
3. Noun
A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point.
4. Noun
an exclamatory rhetorical device; "exclamation such as ‘O tempore! O mores’"
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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