Usually means: Express happiness for someone's success.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word congratulate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. congratulate: Merriam-Webster
  2. congratulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. congratulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. congratulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. congratulate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Congratulate, congratulate: Wordnik
  7. congratulate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. congratulate: Wiktionary
  9. congratulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. congratulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. congratulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Congratulate, congratulate: Dictionary.com
  13. congratulate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Congratulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. congratulate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. congratulate: Rhymezone
  17. congratulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. congratulate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. congratulate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. congratulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. congratulate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. congratulate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. congratulate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. congratulate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. congratulate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. congratulate: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  To express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for; to felicitate.
▸ verb:  (reflexive) To consider oneself fortunate in some matter.

Similar:
compliment, felicitate, pride, plume, preen, good, bless, cheer, warm someone's heart, glad-hand, more...

Opposite:
condemn, criticize, reprimand, censure

Types:
applaud, commend, felicitate, praise, salute, toast, laud, compliment, more...

Phrases:
congratulate yourself, to congratulate one's self, to congratulate ones self, congratulate on, to congratulate, more...

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     blue,     green,     red, more...



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Similar:
compliment, felicitate, pride, plume, preen, good, bless, cheer, warm someone's heart, glad-hand, more...

Opposite:
condemn, criticize, reprimand, censure

Types:
applaud, commend, felicitate, praise, salute, toast, laud, compliment, more...

Phrases:
congratulate yourself, to congratulate one's self, to congratulate ones self, congratulate on, to congratulate, self congratulate, to congratulate someone, more...

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     blue,     green,     red, more...



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