felicitation
- n (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another
- n the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration
- The Government and people of the United States unite in cordial felicitation on this anniversary of Your Majesty's birth.
- From the letter it appeared that Major Judson Hannigan hoped the onetime Kaiser Wilhelm would send an expression of felicitation to be read when there is unveiled at the .
- Most startling felicitation came from insurgent Republican Senator Hiram Johnson of California, no friend to President Hoover.