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hooray


hooray [hoo-rey] Examples interjection, verb (used without object), noun

  1. hurrah.

Also hoo·rah [hoo-rah] /hʊˈrɑ/. hurrah [huh-rah, -raw] interjection

  1. (used as an exclamation of joy, exultation, appreciation, encouragement, or the like.)

verb (used without object)

  1. to shout “hurrah.”

noun

  1. an exclamation of “hurrah.”
  2. hubbub; commotion; fanfare.
  3. a colorful or tumultuous event; spectacle or celebration: We celebrated the centennial with a three-day hurrah.

Idioms

  1. 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.

    The Skipper and the Skipped

    Holman Day

  • Now here’s all this hoorah about his bein’ put up for Congress!

    Heart’s Desire

    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.

    The Covered Wagon

    Emerson Hough

  • “It ain’t wuth a hoorah in a hen-pen if it ain’t run as a tavern,” stated the Cap’n.

    The Skipper and the Skipped

    Holman Day

  • British Dictionary definitions for hoorah hooray interjection, noun, verb

    1. a variant of hurrah

    interjection

    1. Also: hooroo (huːˈruː) Australian and NZ goodbye; cheerio

    hurrah hooray (huːˈreɪ) or hurray (hʊˈreɪ) interjection, noun

    1. a cheer of joy, victory, etc

    verb

    1. 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

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