🇬🇧 Clap meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A clap is the noise people make when they hit their hands together over and over to show they like or admire someone or something, like after a show, a song, a speech, or a performance. When lots of people clap at the same time, it sounds like thunder in a room, and it lets the person on stage know they did a good job.

The clap after my little brother’s ‘song’ was mostly because it finally stopped.

The clap for my magic trick stopped suddenly when everyone saw the card stuck to my forehead.

The audience’s clap was so long the singer had time to drink water, fix her hair, and still bow three more times.

I played one note on the piano and got a giant clap, so I retired from music right there as a legend.

After Dad tried to juggle three oranges and bonked himself on the head, we gave him a sympathy clap.

On stage a boy bowed after the slow song. One clear clap rose from the back, then another clap, then a circle of clap followed, hands hitting hands, a quick clap, a long clap. He smiled, blinked away surprise, and bowed again as the room's clap wrapped him like warm light. He left with bright steps.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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