Laud

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /lɔːd/
• US IPA: /lÉ”d/
• cot-caught IPA: /lÉ‘d/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd

Origin

From Old French lauder, from Latin laudō, from laus ("praise, glory, fame, renown"), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *lēwt-, *lēwdʰ- ("song, sound").

Full definition of laud

Noun

1. Praise or glorification.
• ShakespeareLaud be to God.
• TyndalsSo do well and thou shalt have laud of the same.
2. Hymn of praise.
3. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.

Verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) to praise, to glorify
• 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke I:And hys mought was opened immediatly, and hys tonge, and he spake lawdynge god.

Anagrams

• auld, dual, udal