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Synonyms for hurrah


Grammar : Interj
Spell : huh-rah, -raw
Phonetic Transcription : həˈrɑ, -ˈrɔ

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Définition of hurrah

Origin :
  • 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).
  • interj yeah
Example sentences :
  • I pointed into the bushes with signs of "Hurrah, it's Wahb."
  • Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • The place was cold as a barn, an' it looked like a hurrah's nest.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • I'm just as likely to wave my hat and hurrah as I am to do anything.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • I fired and was reloading my gun, when I heard a hurrah behind me.
  • Extract from : « Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times » by Charles Carleton Coffin
  • Recently the filly shied, took the bit in her teeth and—hurrah, boys!
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • There I was, though, and the crowd doin' the hurrah act for all it was worth.
  • Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
  • No other man in this our day Will ever do, the people say:Hurrah!
  • Extract from : « The Liberty Minstrel » by George W. Clark
  • No iron mixed with miry clay, Will ever do, the people say,Hurrah!
  • Extract from : « The Liberty Minstrel » by George W. Clark
  • "Hurrah, Songbird, you ought to have that set to music," cried Dick.
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle » by Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield)
  • Bob balanced himself on the top rail, and shouted, "Hurrah!"
  • Extract from : « The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1 » by Various

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