Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who offers congratulation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who offers congratulation.
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- noun A person who
congratulates
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Examples
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If the congratulator is a married man, he hopes that his friend may enjoy as much happiness as he has found himself in the married state; if a bachelor, he assures him that, although unable hitherto to act up to his principles, he has always thought marriage the right thing.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun 1860
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The last is my favorite quote of the book because it hits on all of La Toya's major notes: that of the victim, of the self-congratulator, of the utterly clueless.
Brother's keeper 2009
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"I want to play more than the part of the good little congratulator, I want to do more than congratulating the other team in the first round of the playoffs," he said.
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"I want to play more than the part of the good little congratulator, I want to do more than congratulating the other team in the first round of the playoffs," he said.
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As a day of congratulator remarks and endless celebration comes to a conclusion; I wonder to what amount are we going to hold ourselves responsible.
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But Wallace saw The Tube as the worst kind of trap, a tool for eliding the necessary details, for making an artist into a self-congratulator.
PopMatters 2008
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"I want to play more than the part of the good little congratulator, I want to do more than congratulating the other team in the first round of the playoffs."
Baseball Prospectus 2008
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"I want to play more than the part of the good little congratulator, I want to do more than congratulating the other team in the first round of the playoffs."
Baseball Prospectus 2008
hernesheir commented on the word congratulator
A congratulant.
December 23, 2011