Sekirov Dictionary

joy

/d͡ʒɔɪ/

noun 4
verb 4
exclamation 1
forms 3
phrases 4

noun4

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a feeling of being very happy, often because something good has happened or will happen
- It is his joy to walk in the rain.
•
Anything that causes such a feeling.
- the joys and demands of parenthood
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Luck or success; a positive outcome.
- Grant had no joy with taking a nap, so he began to systematically feel if everything was working: fingers and toes, etc. — 2012
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(no longer used) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
- Such ioy made Vna, when her knight she found — 1590

verb4

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To feel joy, to rejoice.
- I joy to see you wear around your neck the holy relic I bestowed on you;—but what Moorish charmlet is that you wear beside it? — 1829
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(no longer used) To enjoy.
- I haue my wish, in that I ioy thy sight, — 1594
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(no longer used) To give joy to; to congratulate.
- Then round our Death-bed ev'ry Friend shou'd run, / And joy us of our Conquest, early won: […] — 1700
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(no longer used) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
- Yet neither pleasure’s art can joy my spirits, Nor yet the other’s distance comfort me. — 1607

exclamation1

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(old-fashioned) Expressing appreciation and happiness.
- 'Joy! joy!' he cried, throwing his arms towards Heaven, 'on a grave be the site of our Temple; and now our happiness is for Eternity!' — 1842

forms

joyed · joying · joys

Phrases with joy

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