hooray [hoo-rey] Examples interjection, verb (used without object), noun
Also hoo·rah [hoo-rah] /hʊˈrɑ/. hurrah [huh-rah, -raw] interjection
- (used as an exclamation of joy, exultation, appreciation, encouragement, or the like.)
verb (used without object)
- to shout “hurrah.”
noun
- an exclamation of “hurrah.”
- hubbub; commotion; fanfare.
- a colorful or tumultuous event; spectacle or celebration: We celebrated the centennial with a three-day hurrah.
Idioms
- last/final hurrah, a final moment or occasion of glory or achievement: The new play will be her last hurrah as an actress before she retires.
Also hur·ray [huh-rey] /həˈreɪ/, hooray, hoorah. Origin of hurrah First recorded in 1680–90, hurrah is from the German word hurra Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for hoorah Historical Examples of hoorah
I’ve taken all comers ‘twixt Hoorah and Hackenny, and he ain’t let me down yet.
Holman Day
Now here’s all this hoorah about his bein’ put up for Congress!
Emerson Hough
Well, if the hoorah had started there ‘stead of here there’d be dead people now back of us more’n there is now.
Emerson Hough
“It ain’t wuth a hoorah in a hen-pen if it ain’t run as a tavern,” stated the Cap’n.
Holman Day
British Dictionary definitions for hoorah hooray interjection, noun, verb
- a variant of hurrah
interjection
- Also: hooroo (huːˈruː) Australian and NZ goodbye; cheerio
hurrah hooray (huːˈreɪ) or hurray (hʊˈreɪ) interjection, noun
- a cheer of joy, victory, etc
verb
- to shout “hurrah”
Word Origin for hurrah C17: probably from German hurra; compare huzzah Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for hoorah hurrah
1680s, alteration of huzza, similar to shouts recorded in German, Danish, Swedish. Perhaps picked up during Thirty Years’ War. Hurra was said to be the battle-cry of Prussian soldiers during the War of Liberation (1812-13). Hooray is its popular form and is almost as old. Also hurray (1780); hurroo (1824); hoorah (1798).
hooray
see hurrah.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper