Without a care, princess took initial kudos (6)
I believe the answer is:
credit
'initial kudos' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'without a care princess took' is the wordplay.
'without' suggests deleting specific letters.
'princess' becomes 'di' (Princess Diana).
'took' becomes 't' (this could be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'care' with 'a' taken away is 'cre'.
'cre'+'di'+'t'='CREDIT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for credit that I've seen before include "Acknowledgement of a contributor" , "Ascribe" , "'Give ...... where ...... is due'" , "acknowledgement of liability" , "result of points on course" .)