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congratulations

interjectionnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kənˌɡɹat͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz//
  • United States//kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz//
  • United States//-t͡ʃʊ-//
  • United States//-d͡ʒə-//
  • United States//-d͡ʒʊ-//

Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.

interjection

  1. 1

    Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.

    Warm congratulations on your newborn boy!

    Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of congratulationplural of congratulation

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).