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Definition: OVERJOY |
OVERJOYNoun1. Excessive joy; transport. Transitive verb1. To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely. |
Date "OVERJOY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | you will overjoy my grandfather, if you know whist |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lyrics overjoy | 7 |
overjoy | 7 |
by lyrics overjoy stevie wonder | 2 |
overjoy stevie wonder | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OVERJOY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gëzoj (cheer, Chirk, delight, enjoy, gladden, hearten, make glad, warm). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | зарадвам (gladden, set up), правя щастлив. (various references) | |
Chinese | 狂喜 (overjoyed). (various references) | |
Czech | uchvátit radostí, nesmírnì rozradostnit. (various references) | |
German | überglücklich machen. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nagy örömmel tölt el (to overjoy). (various references) | |
Manx | cur ard voggey er. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | overjoyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | regozijar (gloat), enlevo (attraction, ecstasy, rapture), enlevar, encher de alegria, arroubo (blaze, ecstasy, flare, flight, rapture, trance), arrebatar (carry away, claw, enrage, enrapture, entrance, force, grab, ravish, snatch, swoop, take, thrill, transport), arrebatamento (clutch, ecstasy, enchantment, enthusiasm, frenzy, grab, gush, hastiness, impetuosity, inebriation, rapture, rashness, ravishment, trance, transport). (various references) | |
Russian | осчастливить (make happy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ushititi (delight, elate, exalt, flush, thrill), prekomerno obradovati. (various references) | |
Spanish | estar demasiado alegre, demasiada alegría. (various references) | |
Turkish | aşırı sevinmek, çok mutlu olmak (be on cloud nine), çok memnun kalmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | викликати захоплення (panic), надмірно радіти, дуже порадувати. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "OVERJOY": overjoyed, overjoying, overjoys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-j-o-o-r-v-y" | |
-3 letters: joey, over, oyer, rove, very, yore. | |
-4 letters: joe, joy, ore, rev, roe, rye, voe. | |
-5 letters: er, jo, oe, or, oy, re, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-j-o-o-r-v-y" | |
+1 letter: overjoys. | |
+2 letters: overjoyed. | |
+3 letters: overjoying. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Fiction 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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