Usually means: Express happiness for someone's success.
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  1. congratulate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. congratulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. congratulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. congratulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. congratulate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Congratulate, congratulate: Wordnik
  7. congratulate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. congratulate: Wiktionary
  9. congratulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. congratulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. congratulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Congratulate, congratulate: Dictionary.com
  13. congratulate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Congratulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. congratulate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. congratulate: Rhymezone
  17. congratulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. congratulate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. congratulate: Free Dictionary
  20. congratulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. congratulate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. congratulate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. congratulate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. congratulate: Encyclopedia

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  1. congratulate: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for; to felicitate.
verb:  (reflexive) To consider oneself fortunate in some matter.

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