Gaiety

Definitions: Gaiety

Gaiety

Noun

1. A gay feeling.

2. A festive merry feeling.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gaiety" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Gaiety

Crosswords: Gaiety

Gaiety George (1946)

The Gaiety Girl (1924)

Gaiety Dance (1897)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Night of Gaiety [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Ayr Gaiety : the theatre made famous by the Popplewells (reference)

• Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature (Wisconsin Project on American Writers) (reference)

• Goddess and the Gaiety Girl (reference)

• Life's Gaiety of Sviat Rasslavlev (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Gaiety Girl (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Pearl was decked out with airy gaiety.

My brethren, I repeat, no zeal, no noise, no excess, even in witticisms, mirth, gaiety and plays on words.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "gaiety": gaiety of color ♦ gaiety of colour ♦ unnatural gaiety. Additional references.

Albanian

gazmend (cheer, glee, joy, liveliness, merriment, mirth), gaz (cheer, cheerfulness, exhilaration, fluid, fume, gas, glee, jamboree, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joy, liveliness, merriment, merriness, mirth, rattle, rollick, sunshine, tittup, waggery), gëzim (cheer, enjoyment, festivity, gladness, glee, joy, merriment, mirth, rejoice, waggery), hare (bliss, gladness, joy), dëfrim (amusement, dalliance, dissipation, entertainment, fun, jinks, ploy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرح (cheer, cheerful, delight, gladden, gladness, glee, gleesome, gloat, happy, joy, joyful, liven up, rejoicing, thaw, tickle), ‏مسرات, ‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏إبتهاج (acclamation, airiness, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, ecstasy, exhilaration, exultation, festival, festivity, joy, jubilation, lustiness, pleasure, rejoicing, spree, sunshine). (various references)

Bulgarian 

веселост (boisterousness, conviviality, gladness, hilarity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, pleasantness, pleasantry, sparkle, sprightliness), веселба (carousal, jollification, jolly, merriment, racket, randan, rattle, rejoicings, revelry, rollick, shine), празничен вид. (various references)

Chinese 

歡樂 (gay, gladness, glee, happy, joyous, merriment, pleasure). (various references)

Czech

veselost (glee, hilarity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriness, pleasantry). (various references)

Finnish

iloisuus (cheerfulness), huikentelevaisuus (fickleness, flightiness, gay life), hilpeys (cheerfulness, merriment, mirth). (various references)

French

gaieté, gaîté, réjouissance. (various references)

German

fröhlichkeit (blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, festiveness, gayness, gladness, gleefulness, happiness, jauntiness, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joyance, joyfulness, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth), Lustigkeit (funniness, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, joviality, merriness, playfulness). (various references)

Greek 

ευθυμία (cheer, conviviality, festivity, frolic, gayness, glee, hilarity, humor, humour, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, resilience). (various references)

Hebrew 

שמח�" (cheer, exhilaration, felicity, gladness, glee, happiness, joy, mirth), עליזות (cheerfulness, fun, joy, lightheartedness, mirth, playfulness), עליצות (ecstasy, merriment, mirth, rejoicing), ב�"יחות �"�"עת (hilarity, merriment). (various references)

Hungarian

vigalom (gaieties, marry-making, rollick), vidámság (alacrity, animation, bonhomie, cheerfulness, chirpiness, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, gayness, glee, happiness, hilarity, jauntiness, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joy, light-heartedness, marry-making, merriment, merriness, mirth, pleasantry, rejoicings, serenity), vígság (cheerfulness, glee, merriment, revelry), színpompa (riot of colours), mulatság (amusement, beano, divertissement, fun, game, gaudy, jollification, jollity, marry-making, merriment, rejoicings, revel, revelry, rollick, sport), jókedv (animal spirits, cheerfulness, chirpiness, exhilaration, flow of spirits, fun, gayness, good humor, good humour, high spirits, hilarity, humor, humour, jollity, joy, let off, merriness, mirth, pleasantry, vivacity), fiatalos hatás, derűs hatás, dísz (decoration, fallals, honor, honorary, ornament, parade, state, trappings, trimming), cifraság (flashiness, furbelows, gaud, gaudiness, tawdriness). (various references)

Indonesian

keriangan (hilarity, joy, merriment), kegirangan (elation, gladness, happiness), kegembiraan (excitement, excuberance, exhilaration, gladness, happiness, joy, mirth, rhapsody). (various references)

Italian

giocondit� (blitheness, mirth), gaiezza (jauntiness, jolliness, merriment, mirth), allegria (cheerfulness, fun, hilarity, jauntiness, jollification, jolliness, merriment, mirth). (various references)

Manx

reaid (amorousness, evenness, flatness, lechery, mirth, plainness; glee, playfulness, smoothness). (various references)

Norwegian

lystighet. (various references)

Pig Latin

aietygay.(various references)

Portuguese

palrar (cackle, chat, chirp, gabardine, gabbler, jabber, jaw, prate, talk, tattle, tittle tattle), diversão (dissociable, diversion, dives, entertainment, excursion boat, fun, game, jamboree, jollity, merriment, merry-thought, pastiness, play, recreation, revel, spoof, sport, spree), contentamento (contentment, glee, gratify, joy, mirth, satisfaction), boa disposição (content, geniality), alegria (bliss, cheer, conviviality, delight, enjoyment, exhilaration, exultant, felicity, frolic, gladness, glee, happiness, Hill, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, jovian, joy, joyless, jubilant, jubilee, lighthouse, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing, sunshine, vivacity, whoopee). (various references)

Romanian

veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, feast, festival, festivity, fiskiness, fling, gale, geniality, gladness, great spirits, high spirits, hilarity, jamboree, jauntiness, jocoseness, jocundity, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings), strãlucire (bravery, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, fineness, fire, flame, flash, flashing, flush, glitter, gloss, glow, gorgeousness, grandeur, irradiance, irradiation, lucency, luminosity, luster, lustre, panoply, pomp, radiance, radiancy, radiation, refulgence, resplendence, richness, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree), bunã dispoziţie (amenity, amiability, buoyancy, cheerfulness, elation, geniality, good humor, good humour, snap, spirit), aspect strãlucitor. (various references)

Russian 

веселье (cheer, festivity, fun, gladness, glee, hilarity, jamboree, jinks, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, merry-making, mirth, revel, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, sunshine, the bowl, tittup), веселость (conviviality, exhilaration, hilarity, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, liveliness, pizzazz). (various references)

Scottish

aighear (gladness, joy, mirth). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dobro raspoloženje (high spirits). (various references)

Spanish

regocijo (amusement, exhilaration, gladness, joy, joyfulness, merriment, rejoicing), animación (animation, bustle, community education, ebullience, ebulliency, encouragement, global animation, inspiration, life, liveliness, motion pictures, pertness, razzle-dazzle), alegría (breeziness, cheerfulness, chuff, contention, contentment, fun, gladness, happiness, hilarity, joy, joyfulness, kaif, keif, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, mirth, perkiness, pertness, playfulness, rejoicing). (various references)

Swedish

glädje (cheer, delight, elation, gladness, glee, happiness, jollity, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, mirth, pleasance, satisfaction). (various references)

Thai

ความสนุกสนาน (gameness, gayety, gust). (various references)

Turkish

göz alıcılık (glitter), gösteriş (affectation, array, blazon, blazonry, dash, display, flashiness, flourish, frill, furbelows, glitter, glossiness, ostentation, panache, parade, pomposity, pretension, pride, put on, shew, show, show off, showiness, showing off, splendidness, splurge, swank, vanity, veneer, veneering), sevinç (delight, elation, exultation, gladness, glee, joy, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing), neşe (brightness, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, esprit, exhilaration, frolic, glee, hilarity, humor, humour, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, merriment, mirth, pleasantry, raciness, rejoicing, spirit, sprightliness, sunshine, vivacity), eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, fun, gag, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport), şenlik (carnival, convivial, conviviality, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta, gala, glorification, jubilation, rejoicing). (various references)

Turkmen 

meslik (cheerfulness, prosperity). (various references)

Ukranian 

веселість (airiness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exhilaration, festivity, gladness, hilarity, joviality), веселощі (cheer, frolic, gambol, glee, joyfulness, merriment, merry making, mirth, racket, revelry, shindig, shindy), ошатність. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vẻ tươi vui, tính vui vẻ (cantiness, chirpiness, geniality, hilariousness, joviality, liveliness, mirthfulness, pleasantness), sự vui vẻ (cheer, gladness, heartiness, hilarity, jauntiness, jocularity, jolliness, jollity, merriment, mirth), cuộc liên hoan đình đám vẻ xán lạn. (various references)

Misspellings

"Gaiety" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agastya, gabinetto, gaite, gaity, Galeotti, Galiotti, gayetty, gayity, gazeti, Ghiotti, Giaretto, Gielty, giety, Guidetti, guiet, laiety, Paipety. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: gait, gate, geta, yagi, yeti.

-3 letters: age, ait, ate, aye, eat, eta, gae, gat, gay, get, gey, gie, git, tae, tag, tea, teg, tie, tye, yea, yet.

-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, at, ay, et, it, ta, ti, ya, ye.

+2 letters: egyptian, gayeties, gigabyte, legality, megacity, pterygia, regality, yeasting.

+3 letters: aetiology, betraying, egyptians, estraying, geniality, genitally, gigabytes, safetying, steadying, teasingly, yattering.

+4 letters: acetifying, agitatedly, amnestying, bayoneting, beatifying, daylighted, digitately, ethylating, exactingly, galleryite, generality, gravimetry, gyniatries, illegality, integrally, kerygmatic, legitimacy, negatively, negativity, obligately, panegyrist, pigmentary, regularity.

+5 letters: acceptingly, acetylating, affectingly, amblygonite, arrestingly, astringency, banteringly, bayonetting, beautifying, benignantly, cleistogamy, cytomegalic, dehydrating, denigratory, designatory, falteringly, galleryites, gametically, genetically, genitivally, genotypical, glycerinate, heavyweight, hyphenating, inelegantly, integrality, interagency, interlaying, methylating, multiagency, mystagogies, negotiatory, outwearying, overstaying, oxygenating, oxygenation, panegyrists, phagocytize, pyrargyrite, rehydrating, steatopygia, steatopygic, tapestrying, tragicomedy, travestying, typecasting, unsteadying, vestigially.

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