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noun - enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause)
Enthusiastic, prolonged applause.
A show of public homage or welcome.
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| This noun that means prolonged applause sounds like it refers to eggs |
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| enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause) |
| A sustained and enthusiastic show of appreciation from an audience, especially by means of applause. |
| A processional entrance into Rome by a victorious commander, of lesser honour than a triumph. |
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| a sustained and enthusiastic show of appreciation from an audience, especially by means of applause. |
| an occasion when a crowd of people expresses great enjoyment andor approval of something with loud and long clapping: |
| loud clapping that expresses a crowds great enjoyment or approval of something: |
| Enthusiastic, prolonged applause. |
| A show of public homage or welcome. |
| An ancient Roman victory ceremony of somewhat less importance than a triumph. |
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The ovation (Latin: ovatio) was a form of the Roman triumph. Ovations were granted when war was not declared between enemies on the level of nations or states; when an enemy was considered basely inferior (e.g., slaves, pirates); or when the general conflict was resolved with little or no danger to the army itself.The general celebrating the ovation did not enter the city on a biga, a chariot pulled by two white horses, as generals celebrating triumphs did, but instead walked in the toga praetexta of a magistrate. * The honoured general also wore a wreath of myrtle (sacred to Venus) upon his brow, rather than the triumphal wreath of laurel. The Roman Senate did not precede the general, nor did soldiers usually participate in the procession. * Perhaps the most famous ovation in history is that which Marcus Licinius Crassus celebrated after his victory of the Third Servile War. * Ovation holders * Republic * There were 23 known ovations during the Republic. * 503 BC Publius Postumius Tubertus (over |