eulogise
/ˈjuː.lə.dʒaɪz/verb
eulogise is a verb meaning “To praise, celebrate or pay homage to someone, especially in an eloquent formal eulogy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-U-L-O-G-I-S-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does eulogise mean?
verb
- 1
UKTo praise, celebrate or pay homage to someone, especially in an eloquent formal eulogy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce eulogise?
- UK /ˈjuː.lə.dʒaɪz/
Eulogise has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-eulogise.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of eulogise
- eulogises present, singular, he/she/it
- eulogising participle, present
- eulogised participle, past
- eulogize
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is eulogise?
Eulogise appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Eulogise in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense praise:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does eulogise come from?
From eulogy + -ise.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).