JOY
\d͡ʒˈɔ͡ɪ], \dʒˈɔɪ], \dʒ_ˈɔɪ]\
Definitions of JOY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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That which causes joy or happiness.
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The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
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To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.
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To give joy to; to congratulate.
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To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
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To enjoy.
By Oddity Software
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That which causes joy or happiness.
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The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
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To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.
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To give joy to; to congratulate.
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To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
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To enjoy.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Gladness: rapture: mirth: the cause of joy.
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To rejoice: to be glad: to exult:-pr.p. joying; pa.p. joyed.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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n. [French, Latin] The emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good ; gladness ; exultation ; exhilaration of spirits ; - gayety ; mirth ; festivity ; - happiness ; felicity ; - the prospect of eternal blessedness ; - the cause or source of happiness or rejoicing ; - a term of fondness.
