Other forms: lauded, lauding, lauds
To laud is to praise somebody publicly. Lauded as a hero, lauded for his work, widely lauded.
It is nearly always passive and belongs to headlines and citations rather than to speech. The related noun survives in Lauds, the morning office of prayer, and in the phrase laud and honour.
1verblaudTo praise somebody publicly.
“Critics lauded the young director for her brave first film.”
laud is a praising.
Latin laudare means to praise, from laus, praise.
Latin
laudo
Old French
lauder
Middle English
lauden
English, today
laud
Built from
Middle English lauden, from Old French lauder, from Latin laudo, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European - root leh₁wdʰ- (“song, sound”). Cognate with Old English lēoþ (“song, poem”), German Lied (“song”). a doublet of leed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA