• (British) IPA: /lɔːd/
• (America) IPA: /lɔd/
• (cot-caught) IPA: /lɑd/

laud

1. praise#English|Praise or glorification.

   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     Laud be to God.

   • So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same.

2. Hymn of praise.
3. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.

• Italian: lode
• Portuguese: louva
• Russian: хвала́

• Portuguese: louvor

laud (lauds, present participle lauding; past and past participle lauded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to praise, to glorify
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke I:

     And hys mought was opened immediatly, and hys tonge, and he spake lawdynge god.

• French: glorifier, célébrer, exalter
• German: preisen
• Italian: lodare, glorificare
• Portuguese: louvar
• Russian: восхваля́ть
• Spanish: loar