Definition of "reprimand"

reprimand

/ˈɹɛpɹɪmɑːnd/

noun
plural reprimands
1. A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
  Quotations
  Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.
  1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith ”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871
verb
third-person singular simple present reprimands, present participle reprimanding, simple past and past participle reprimanded
1. To reprove in a formal or official way.
  Quotations
  He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope:
  1983. Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.

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