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Definition: Jollity |
JollityNoun1. Feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jollity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonym: JollitySynonym: joviality (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Fun, frolic, merriment, jollity; joviality, jovialness; heyday; laughter; jocosity, jocoseness; drollery, buffoonery, tomfoolery; mummery, pleasantry; wit; quip, quirk. |
Cheerfulness | Liveliness; Adjective: life, alacrity, vivacity, animation, allegresse; jocundity, joviality, jollity; levity; jocularity; (wit). |
Sociality | Conviviality; good fellowship, good company; joviality, jollity, savoir vivre, festivity, festive board, merrymaking; loving cup; hospitality, heartiness; cheer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Jollity |
| English words defined with "jollity": Jolliness, Jolloment, Jollyhead, Jouissance ♦ Saturnalian. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "jollity": Jolloment, Jollyhead. (references) |
| "Jollity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.92% of the time. "Jollity" is used about 48 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) | 97.92% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "jollity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gaz (cheer, cheerfulness, exhilaration, fluid, fume, gaiety, gas, glee, jamboree, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, joy, liveliness, merriment, merriness, mirth, rattle, rollick, sunshine, tittup, waggery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | увеселение (merrymaking), веселост (boisterousness, conviviality, gaiety, gladness, hilarity, jocundity, joviality, pleasantness, pleasantry, sparkle, sprightliness), веселие (cheer, exhilaration, frolic, glee, hilarity, junket, lark, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, revel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | veselost (gaiety, glee, hilarity, jocundity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriness, pleasantry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کیف (Bag, Kef, Pleasure, Revel, Valise), زیور (Jewel, Trangam), عیاشی (Binge, Debauch, Debauchery, Mask, Revelry), عیشی , خوشی (Bliss, Cheer, Curvet, Delight, Felicity, Gala, Glee, Gust, Hilarity, Jamboree, Jollification, Joviality, Joy, Joyance, Lark, Mirth, Paradise, Pleasure, Ploy, Splurge, Spree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ilottelu (merriment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fröhlichkeiten (mirths). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευθυμία (cheer, conviviality, festivity, frolic, gaiety, gayness, glee, hilarity, humor, humour, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, resilience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vidámság (alacrity, animation, bonhomie, cheerfulness, chirpiness, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, gaiety, gayness, glee, happiness, hilarity, jauntiness, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, joy, light-heartedness, marry-making, merriment, merriness, mirth, pleasantry, rejoicings, serenity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gennallys (amiableness, bonhomie, cheerfulness, chirpiness, conviviality, geniality, glee, jocularity, joviality, mirth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollityjay fazer uma pândega, diversão (dissociable, diversion, dives, entertainment, excursion boat, fun, gaiety, game, jamboree, merriment, merry-thought, pastiness, play, recreation, revel, spoof, sport, spree), alegria (bliss, cheer, conviviality, delight, enjoyment, exhilaration, exultant, felicity, frolic, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, Hill, jocularity, jocundity, jovian, joy, joyless, jubilant, jubilee, lighthouse, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing, sunshine, vivacity, whoopee). (various references) voioşie (amenity, cheerfulness, glee, jauntiness, jocundity, jollification, 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, jollification, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, junket, merry making, party, spree), distracţie (absence-mindedness, amusement, dalliance, distraction, diversion, do, drollery, entertainment, frolic, fun, jest, jocularity, merriment, merry making, pastime, recreation, revel, skittle, sport, sporting). (various references) веселье (cheer, festivity, fun, gaiety, gladness, glee, hilarity, jamboree, jinks, merriment, merrymaking, merry-making, mirth, revel, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, sunshine, the bowl, tittup). (various references) aiseal (axle). (various references) veselost (cheerfulness, exuberance, exuberancy, facetiousness, happiness, jocosity, joviality, joy, lightheartedness, mirth, pleasantry). (various references) uppsluppenhet (high spirits, hilarity), munterhet (cheer, exhilaration, gaiety, glee, hilarity, jocosity, jocundity, joyfulness, merriment, merriness, mirth, risibility), glädje (cheer, delight, elation, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, mirth, pleasance, satisfaction). (various references) neşelilik (bonhomie, cheerfulness, cheeriness, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, joviality, joyfulness, lightness, perkiness), neşe (brightness, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, esprit, exhilaration, frolic, gaiety, glee, hilarity, humor, humour, jocundity, jolliness, 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, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, 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, jollification, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree). (various references) sự vui vẻ (cheer, gaiety, gladness, heartiness, hilarity, jauntiness, jocularity, jolliness, merriment, mirth), hội hè đình đám. (various references) rhialtwch (festivity, pomp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Jollity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hallity, jolity, Jolley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "jollity" (pronounced 'Jol"li*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: joltily. | |
| Words within the letters "i-j-l-l-o-t-y" | |
-2 letters: jolly, jolty, tolyl. | |
-3 letters: illy, jill, jilt, jolt, lilt, lily, loti, oily, till, toil, toll, yill. | |
-4 letters: ill, jot, joy, lit, lot, oil, til, toy. | |
-5 letters: it, jo, li, lo, oy, ti, to, yo. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 6F 6C 6C 69 74 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01101111 01101100 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J o l l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 006F 006C 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)44817878758691 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albanialainen, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, Albaneagh, 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, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, 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, t?ekkiläinen, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, người Séc tiếng Séc |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, фински език, фински, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, finski jezik, finski, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, tiếng Phần-lan |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, saksalainen, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, tysk, alman, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, kreikkalainen, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, Greagish, Greagagh, 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, Groegwr |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, unkarilainen, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, ungrare, macarca, macar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, från ön man, man adası, man dili |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugalilainen, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portiugish, Portiugagh, 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, romanialainen, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumänsk |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ryss, Rusça, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Scottish | foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachan | skocez, шотландски, skotský, skotlantilainen, schottisch, σκωτσέζικο, σκωτικόσ, skót, Albinagh, escocês, scoţian, шотландский, škotski jezik, škotski, škotlanđani, skotsk, iskoçyalı |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, ruotsalainen, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, 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, vietnamilainen, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | shkel premtimin, populli i uellsit, ik pa paguar, i uellsit, gjuha e uellsit, уелски, уелски език, не си плащам дълга, измъквам се от задължение, waleský, waleština, walisisch, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, walesi, Bretnagh, galês, limba velşã, velş, din ţara galilor, уэльский, velšanin, podvaliti, velški jezik, velški, walesisk, galler ile ilgili, gal dili, bahisleri ödemeden kaçmak, ödemeden kaçmak, sözünü tutmamak, şartları yerine getirmemek, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, beurla, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, Saesneg |
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