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Meaning of eloge | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. An expression of praise.
  2. A statement or disquisition in praise of someone who has died.
  3. Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.

Equivalents

Français éloge

Examples

“In a later éloge, Georges Cuvier called it, with pardonable exaggeration, ‘in some respects the last words of a dying Plato’.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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