laud

Borrowed from Old French lauder, from Latin laudō, laudāre, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh₁wdʰ- (“song, sound”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɔːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lɔd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /lɑd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːd

laud (countable and uncountable, plural lauds)

1. Praise or glorification.
   • Shakespeare

     Laud be to God.

   • Tyndals

     So 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.

laud (third-person singular simple present lauds, present participle lauding, simple past and past participle lauded)

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.

• canonical hours
• lauder

• laud in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• laud in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• laud at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Auld, Daul, Dula, auld, dual, udal

Likely from Proto-Germanic *flauþ or *flaut. Compare Swedish flöte. Also compare Lithuanian plautas and Latvian plauts.

laud (genitive laua, partitive lauda)

1. board
2. plank
3. table

• lauamäng

From Latin laus, laudem.

laud m (plural lauds)

1. praise, commendation

• laudâ

laud

1. west

Akin to Finnish lauta.

laud

1. board
2. plank

Related to Finnish lauta, Estonian laud.

laud

1. board
2. plank

• laudasine
• čukalduzlaud
• ikunlaud
• lumilaud
• möndlaud
• potklaud
• tedotuzlaud
• tölaud
• laudkund
• laudsein

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “доска”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• IPA^(key): [la.ˈud]

laud (plural lauds)

1. lark (bird)

• böd
• nim

• hilaud
• hilaudül
• jilaud
• jilaudül
• laudil
• laudül

• brüyäralaud (“woodlark”), Lullula arborea
• felalaud (“skylark”), Alauda arvensis
• töpalaud (“crested lark”), Galerida cristata