joy
Joy is defined as happiness and delight.
(noun)An example of joy is what you feel on your wedding day.
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See joy in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a very glad feeling; happiness; great pleasure; delight
- anything causing such feeling
- the expression or showing of such feeling
Origin: ME joie < OFr < LL gaudia, orig. pl. of L gaudium, joy < IE base *gāu-, to rejoice > Gr gēthein, to rejoice, MIr gūaire, noble
intransitive verb
to be full of joy; rejoice
transitive verb
- to make joyful
- to enjoy
noun
a feminine name
See joy in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness.b. The expression or manifestation of such feeling.
- A source or an object of pleasure or satisfaction: their only child, their pride and joy.
To take great pleasure; rejoice.
verb, transitive Archaic
- To fill with ecstatic happiness, pleasure, or satisfaction.
- To enjoy.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English joie
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Latin gaudia
Origin: , pl. of gaudium, joy
Origin: , from gaudēre, to rejoice; see gāu- in Indo-European roots
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