joy
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
joy/ʤɔɪ/
▶noun
- 1 a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.
■ a cause of joy.
- 2 [usu. with neg.] Brit. informal success or satisfaction: you'll get no joy out of her.
– phrases
be full of the joys of spring be lively and cheerful.
be full of the joys of spring be lively and cheerful.
– derivatives
joyless adjective,
joylessly adverb.
joyless adjective,
joylessly adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. joie, based on L. gaudium, from gaudere ‘rejoice’.
'joy' also found in these Oxford entries:
blissful
- cheer
- congratulate
- emotion
- enjoy
- eureka
- feu de joie
- gaudy
- glory
- heyday
- hosanna
- hurrah
- jo
- joie de vivre
- joyful
- joyous
- Jubilate
- jubilation
- light
- oh
- old man's beard
- praise
- pride
- radiant
- rapture
- rejoice
- Schadenfreude
- tra la
- transport
- traveller's joy
- triumph
- unconfined
- wen
- whoop
- whoopee
- winsome
- yahoo
