noun The act of loudly calling or crying out, for example, as in anger, grief or pain, joy, surprise, etc.; an instance of this.
noun The act of loudly complaining or protesting; an instance of this; a complaint, an outcry, a protest.
noun Synonym of interjection (“a phrase or word with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence but which serves to express emotion or as a filled pause”).
noun Synonym of exclamation mark (“the punctuation mark "!", generally used to denote excitement, shock, or surprise”).
noun Synonym of ecphonesis (” the making of an emotional utterance; an instance of this; an exclamatory phrase”); also, synonym of epiphonema (“ an exclamatory phrase or reflection used to round off or summarize an argument or discourse”).
noun Followed by of: the act of formally declaring; an instance of this; a declaration, a proclamation, a pronouncement.
noun ↑ “exclamāciǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
noun ↑ Compare “exclamation, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2026; “exclamation, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.