Definition of "huzzah"

huzzah

/həˈzɑː/

interjection
1. (nautical, dated) Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting.
2. (literary, poetic, archaic, sometimes humorous) Used as a cheer indicating exaltation, enjoyment or approval.
  Quotations
  Deposed King: 'KING KNIGHT REIGNS NO MORE? HUZZAH! NOW I CAN RULE PRIDEMOOR! HURRAH!'
  2014, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Village
noun
plural huzzahs
1. A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event.
verb
third-person singular simple present huzzahs, present participle huzzahing, simple past and past participle huzzahed
1. (transitive, intransitive) To cheer (someone or something) with a huzzah sound.
  Quotations
  Towns have been taken, and battles have been won; the mob has huzza'd round bonefires, the Stentor of the chappel has ſtrained his throat in the gallery, and the Stentor of S——m has deafned his audience from the pulpit.
  1710 October 2 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Whig-Examiner: No. 2. Thursday, September 21. ”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, page 339
  In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]
  1891, Littell’s Living Age, volume 191, page 260