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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-155/
- Published: 2025-01-02T17:15:36.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-02T17:15:35.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

plaudit (noun): 

1: an act or round of applause

2: enthusiastic approval, usually used in plural

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plaudits?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Plaudit is a word coined by shortening Latin plaudite, meaning "applaud". Plaudit had gained approval status in English by the first years of the 17th century. Latin plaudite is a form of the verb plaudere, meaning "to applaud"; plaudere, in turn, is ancestor to explode, plausible, and the archaic displode (a synonym of explode).

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