joy

Definition

  • noun: a feeling of great happiness
  • noun: the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires
  • verb: to experience great pleasure or delight
  • synonyms: rejoice, delight, pleasure

Examples

  • She answered the phone and, to her great 'joy', heard her son's voice on the line. [=she felt very happy when she heard her son's voice]

  • “You've spent hours looking for it. Any 'joy'? [='luck']” “No 'joy' whatsoever, I'm afraid. I can't find it.”

  • They were 'shouting/jumping for joy'. [=they shouted/jumped because they were very happy]

Movie quotes

  • (..) risking their lives for the Fatherland. (BUZZING) - "My people's density is my density." - Destiny. "Its struggles and its sorrows, its joys and its miseries are mine. "I must work and create for the resurrection of my Fatherland. "The history of my people is great and glorious." And it's . (..)
    2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas