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ovacionar

Portuguese, verb/o.va.si.oˈna(ʁ)/

ovacionar is spelled O-V-A-C-I-O-N-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese, the 227,016th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ovacionar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hail (praise enthusiastically)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aclamar publicamente”.

What does ovacionar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to hail (praise enthusiastically)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. aclamar publicamente 2. aplaudir com entusiasmo

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of ovacionar

  • ovaciono first-person present singular
  • ovacionei first-person preterite singular
  • ovacionado participle past
  • ovacionares infinitive second-person singular
  • ovacionarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • ovacionardes infinitive plural second-person
  • ovacionarem infinitive plural third-person
  • ovacionando gerund
  • ovacionados masculine participle past
  • ovacionada feminine participle past
  • ovacionadas feminine participle past
  • ovacionas indicative present second-person
  • ovaciona indicative present singular
  • ovacionamos first-person indicative plural
  • ovacionais indicative plural present
  • ovacionam indicative plural present
  • ovacionava first-person imperfect indicative
  • ovacionavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce ovacionar?

  • Brazil /o.va.si.oˈna(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [o.va.si.oˈna(h)]
  • Brazil /o.va.sjoˈna(ʁ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is ovacionar in Portuguese?

ovacionar appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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