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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Parthian shot, address, affirmation, allegation, answer, apostrophe, assertion, averment, bellow, blurt, call, comment, crack, cry, declaration, dictum, ecphonesis, ejaculation, expletive, expression, greeting, holler, interjection, mention, note, observation, outburst, outcry, phrase, position, pronouncement, question, reflection, remark, say, saying, sentence, shout, statement, subjoinder, thought, utterance, vociferation, word, yell
Dictionary Results for exclamation:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
exclamation
    n 1: an abrupt excited utterance; "she gave an exclamation of
         delight"; "there was much exclaiming over it" [syn:
         exclamation, exclaiming]
    2: a loud complaint or protest or reproach
    3: an exclamatory rhetorical device; "O tempore! O mores" [syn:
       ecphonesis, exclamation]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Exclamation \Ex`cla*ma"tion\, n. [L. exclamatio: cf. F.
   exclamation.]
   1. A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic
      utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is
      cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression
      of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise,
      pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
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            Exclamations against abuses in the church. --Hooker.
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            Thus will I drown your exclamations.  --Shak.
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            A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion.
                                                  --Trench.
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   2. (Rhet.) A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word
      expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
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   3. (Print.) A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic
      utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation
      point.
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