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Definition: Jollification |
JollificationNoun1. Boisterous celebration. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jollification" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
Etymology: Jollification \Jol`li*fi*ca"tion\, noun. [Jolly Latin -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: JollificationSynonyms: conviviality (n), merrymaking (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat. |
Intemperance | Revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Jollification. Deadwood People celebrating the building of D.O.R.R. road to Lead City. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Jollification" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Jollification" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "jollification"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | festim (celebration, do, festival, frolic, merrymaking, regale, revel, solemnization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | развеселяване (exhilaration), веселба (carousal, gaiety, jolly, merriment, racket, randan, rattle, rejoicings, revelry, rollick, shine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | veselí (amusement, cheerfulness, exhilaration, festivity, glee, merriment, mirth, rejoicing, spree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | طربناک کردن , طرب (Jocularity, Joviality), خوشی (Bliss, Cheer, Curvet, Delight, Felicity, Gala, Glee, Gust, Hilarity, Jamboree, Jollity, Joviality, Joy, Joyance, Lark, Mirth, Paradise, Pleasure, Ploy, Splurge, Spree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γιορτή (feast, festival, fiesta), γλέντι (carousal, carouse, conviviality, festivity, jamboree, junket, junketing, lark, merry making, reception, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, wassail), διασκέδαση (amusement, diversion, divertissement, enjoyment, entertainment, frolic, fun, junketing, lark, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, recreation, shindig, sport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mulatozás (dazzle, flare-up, fling, gaieties, gaiety, high jinks, jollity, junketing, merry making, razzle, revel, revelry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | baldoria (bacchanal, binge, carouse, good time, jamboree, merriment, merrymaking, razzle-dazzle, revel, reveling, revelling, revelry, spree), allegria (cheerfulness, fun, gaiety, hilarity, jauntiness, jolliness, merriment, mirth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollificationjay trocista (scoffer, sneering), festança (jolly, junketing, racket, revelry), divertimento (amusement, distraction, enkindle, entertainment, frolic, fun, gambol, game, merriment, merry making, pastime, play, recreation, revel, skittle, sport, treat). (various references) voioşie (amenity, cheerfulness, glee, jauntiness, jocundity, jollity, joy, mirth), veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, feast, festival, festivity, fiskiness, fling, gaiety, gale, geniality, gladness, great spirits, high spirits, hilarity, jamboree, jauntiness, jocoseness, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings). (various references) увеселение (entertainment, jollity). (various references) veselje (celebration, festivity, frolic, hilarity, joy, merriment, merrymaking, rollick), lumperajka (binge, carousal). (various references) muntration, festlighet (conviviality, festivity, function, gaiety). (various references) ความสนุกสนานรื่นเริง. (various references) eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, fun, gag, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport), cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), alem (bat, bender, binge, blast, blind, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, class of beings, condition, creation, entertainment, junket, kingdom, nature, orgy, party, potation, potations, razzle-dazzle, realm, revel, revelry, riot, rollicking time, spree, state, universe, whoopee, world). (various references) trò vui cuộc vui chơi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "jollification": jollifications. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "jollification" (pronounced 'Jol`li*fi*ca"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-i-i-j-l-l-n-o-o-t" | |
-4 letters: ciliation, coalition, coitional, collation, cotillion, fictional, filiation, foliation, octillion, olfaction. | |
-5 letters: colonial, cotillon, illation, location. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-i-i-j-l-l-n-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: jollifications. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01101111 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J o l l i f i c a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 006F 006C 006C 0069 0066 0069 0063 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, alban, Arnavut |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, người Séc tiếng Séc |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumänsk |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, τούρκικοσ, török, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turkisk, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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