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

  • (..) – Well hell, I can't imagine two weeks in Boston. STEVEN: Two weeks in Boston, oh that's your- oh man! Ah, two weeks in Boston! SCHULTZ: I can't express the joy I felt conversing in my mother tongue. And Hilde is a charming conversation companion. CANDY: Ah be careful now Doctor Schultz, (..)
    2012 Django Unchained