ovation
/oʊˈveɪ·ʃən/ n [C]Definition
› loud clapping that expresses a crowd’s great enjoyment or approval of something: At the end of the program, the dancers received a thunderous ovation.
(Definition of ovation n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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