kudos

From Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos, “praise, renown”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːdɒs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.doʊz/, /ˈkuː.doʊs/

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kudos (uncountable)

1. Praise; accolades.

   The talented, young playwright received much kudos for his new drama.

   I gave Chelsea much kudos for the birth of her first daughter.

   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "1 Night in Gottlieb" (season 1, episode 2):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Pat, I gotta tell you, you did a lot of things right with this lunch―kudos. You got back quickly, you showed initiative, and, best of all, you left plenty of room for improvement.

   • 2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “The Lottery”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 24, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

     And… and to that… to that Turkish horse, I say this, “You should not step on people’s balls, but, in this solitary instance, kudos, horse, kudos.”

2. Credit for one's achievements.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

• The noun kudos was originally a mass noun, but in American English is now sometimes treated as a plural noun, either as a plurale tantum, or as the plural of a new noun kudo, contrary to the original Greek κῦδος (kûdos), which is a singular noun. The American pronunciation implies this plural usage, which many authorities nevertheless consider erroneous.
• The interjection is related to the noun sense through the idea of "giving kudos to someone", similar to how the interjection thanks relates to the idea of "giving thanks to someone".

kudos

1. An interjection indicating praise or approval or as an acknowledgement of a laudable achievement.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:well done

kudos (third-person singular simple present kudoses, present participle kudosing, simple past and past participle kudosed)

1. (informal) To give praise or accolades.
   • 2018, Margaret Edds, We Face the Dawn:

     You know and I know that Dr. Tinsley likes a bit of kudosing every now and then. I think it would be well if we seriously considered some kind of honorable mention for him at the Conference.

kudos

1. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) plural of kudo

kudos

1. (nonstandard, informal, sometimes proscribed) third-person singular simple present indicative of kudo

kutoa (“to weave”) +‎ -os.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkudos/, [ˈkudo̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -udos
• Syllabification^(key): ku‧dos
• Hyphenation^(key): ku‧dos

kudos

1. (textiles) fabric, texture (texture of a cloth)
2. fabric (framework underlying a structure)

   Synonym: rakenne

   maailmankaikkeuden kudos ― the fabric of the universe

3. (art) texture (quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts)

   Synonym: rakenne

   sävellyksen polyfoninen kudos ― the polyphonic texture of the composition

4. (anatomy, zoology) tissue (in humans and animals, group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job)

   Near-synonym: solukko (in plants or fungi)

• kudonnainen
• kudonta
• kutoa

• “kudos”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023