Laughter Definition

lăftər, läf-
noun
The act of laughing.
American Heritage
The action of laughing or the sound resulting.
Webster's New World
An indication of mirth or amusement.
With laughter in her eyes.
Webster's New World
A matter for or cause of laughter.
Webster's New World

A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.

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Noun

Singular:
laughter
Plural:
laughters

Origin of Laughter

  • From Middle English, from Old English hleahtor (“laughter, jubilation, derision"), from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz (“laughter"), from Proto-Indo-European *klek-, *kleg- (“to shout"). Cognate with German Gelächter (“laughter, hilarity, merriment"), Danish and Norwegian latter (“laughter"), Icelandic hlátur (“laughter"). More at laugh.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English hleahtor

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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