2. Verb. (ambitransitive) To cheer with a "hurray". ¹
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Definition of Hurray
1. to hurrah [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: hurrah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurray
Literary usage of Hurray
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"... adroitly dodging the candle ends which had been knocked, from the main
chandelier, and were occasionally darted at him and his protege. "hurray for ..."
2. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1904)
"878 ii 12 hurray, Jamei (17257-1794): for (1725? read (1719? 14 for 1725 read
1719 876 i 19-20 for Miss Callen read. Cordelia, eldest daughter of John ..."
3. Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of ...by Arthur Wellesley Wellington by Arthur Wellesley Wellington (1872)
"hurray. 19 HOME AND COLONIAL LIBRARY. A Series of Works adapted for all circlet
and Classen of Readers, baring been selected for their acknowledged interest ..."
4. A Selection of Precedents of Pleading Under the Judicature Acts in the Queen by Miles Walker Mattinson, Stuart Cunningham Macaskie (1884)
"Smith, 425 hurray v. Currie, 438 Musgrave r. Walsh, 31 Hyatt r. St. Helen's Rail.
Co., 468 Myers v. London and South Western Rail. ..."
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