Usually means: Enthusiastic public applause for performance.
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  1. ovation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ovation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ovation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. ovation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ovation: Wiktionary
  9. ovation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. ovation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ovation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ovation (American TV channel), Ovation (Australian TV channel), Ovation (U.S. TV channel), Ovation (award), Ovation (disambiguation), Ovation (software), Ovation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ovation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ovation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  19. Ovation (f), ovation, ovation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ovation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  24. Ovation: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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noun:  (Ancient Rome) A victory ceremony of less importance than a triumph.
noun:  (by extension) A (ceremony for the) recognition of some achievement.
noun:  (by extension) Prolonged enthusiastic applause.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, informal, rare) To give (someone) an ovation (prolonged enthusiastic applause).
noun:  (zoology, obsolete, rare) The act of laying eggs.

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