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Definition: Joy |
JoyNoun1. The emotion of great happiness. 2. Something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight". Verb1. Feel happiness or joy. 2. Make glad or happy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Joy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a joy". |
Date "joy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you feel joy over any event, denotes harmony among friends. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Joy The seven joys of the Virgin: (1) The annunciation; (2) the visitation; (3) the nativity; (4) the adoration of the three kings; (5) the presentation in the temple; (6) the discovery of her youthful Son in the temple in the midst of the doctors; (7) her assumption and coronation. (See Sorrow.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Happiness, pleasure or joy is the emotional state of being happy. The definition of happiness is one of the greatest philosophical quandaries. Proposed definitions include freedom from want and distress, consciousness of the good order of things, assurance of one's place in the universe or society, and so forth. Associated emotions include joy, exultation, delight, bliss, and love, and antonyms include suffering, sadness, grief, and anger.
Philosophies of happiness
See also: morality, which might be defined as the study of the fair distribution of happiness.
- Utilitarianism commonly seeks the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
- Epicureanism is the belief that the greatest good is to seek happiness for oneself.
- Hedonism is any philosophical theory that gives pleasure a central role.
- Eudaimonianism is the view, associated with Aristotle that happiness is constituted by faring well and doing well, understood as a life lived in accord with the human excellences or virtues.
Achieving happiness
A number of commonly recommended ways to produce happiness:
But most of the above, as a side effect of causing happiness, can also be addictive. An addiction can mask unhappiness and prevent one from finding true happiness.
- sexual intercourse and other sex. Also Tantra
- closure
- shopping
- money and business, prosperity
- friends and friendships (also penpals)
- romantic relationships and romance
- love
- religion
- philosophy, Epicurus, Epicureanism
- spirituality
- science
- food
- books
- cinema
- dating
- flirting
- kissing
- pets and animals
- gifts
- greeting cards and postcards
- family and parents
- expanding our knowledge, reading and learning new things
- lifestyle
- alternative lifestyles
- drinking, alcohol
- meditation and yoga
- hobbies
- decoration
- sleeping
See also
Happiness is also a 1998 U.S film written and directed by Todd Solondz.
- Paradox of hedonism
- Psychology
- Emotion
- Utopia
- Ergot
Joy is a 1990 novel by Marsha Hunt.
See also: Bill Joy
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Joy (1990) is a novel by Marsha Hunt about the relationship between two African American women which is based on secrets, lies, and delusion. Mainly set in a posh New York apartment in the course of one day in the spring of 1987, the novel contains frequent flashbacks that describe life in a black neighbourhood in the 1950s and 1960s. The book also deals with stardom in the music business and some people's inability, despite their riches, to make their own American Dream come true and to lead fulfilled lives.The first person narrator of the novel is Palatine Ross, a 70 year-old cleaning woman originally from New Orleans whose childhood is dominated by poverty and loss. One of six children whose father left the family never to be seen again, she experiences even more hardship when three of her brothers, who work as farm hands, die in a burning barn. When, shortly afterwards, her mother also dies, it falls upon Palatine to raise her two remaining siblings, Caesar and Helen.
After the end of the Second World War, Palatine marries, and the newlyweds decide to leave the South for good. They move to Oakland, California, with Caesar and Helen in tow, both of whom have by now become alcoholics. Palatine, who has had no formal education, and her husband start working as "apartment managers", a job which mainly consists in collecting the rent and scrubbing the floors of the building where they live. Their marriage remains childless though, and the couple find solace by becoming active members of one of the local churches.
When, in 1956, a young widowed mother of three moves into the apartment next to theirs, Palatine recognizes in one of the girls, eight year-old Joy Bang, her "God-sent child", the one she could never have herself, especially when she notices that Joy's mother prefers Joy's sisters over her. For the next twenty years or so, Palatine keeps "sticking her two cents in". A do-gooder, she turns the other family's life upside down by showering Joy with her affection and meddling with her mother's way of bringing up her three children. However, for reasons yet unknown to Palatine (and the reader), Joy's mother is grateful for Palatine's interference, and no open conflict arises.
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Shutting her eyes to all the evil in the world and firmly relying on God and the words of the Bible as guidance, Palatine tries to raise Joy and her sisters to be educated, honest and religious members of society. The fact that, growing up in a rough neighbourhood, the not yet teenaged girls are very early in their lives confronted with sex willingly escapes her notice. It troubles Palatine a lot when Dagwood, her neighbour's new boyfriend, starts spending the night with the girls' mother. One morning during the summer vacation, while his girlfriend is at work and Palatine is taking care of the children, Dagwood stays on in the apartment. While he is hung over and still half asleep, ten year-old Brenda, the oldest, performs oral sex on him, with Joy watching. Briefly at a loss, Palatine, on learning about this unbelievable incident, talks to Dagwood and demands of him that he leave town immediately without even waiting for his girlfriend to return from work. Also, she makes Brenda and Joy "swear eternal secrecy" and never tell their mother about it. Some years later she arranges a secret backstreet abortion for Anndora, the youngest of the three sisters who is still in high school, which, though "successful", results in the girl never being able to become pregnant again.
Right from the start, Palatine tries to take the three girls along to church, seeing that their blaspheming mother will never do so. It is there that, during choir practice, the girls' -- especially Brenda's -- singing talent is discovered. Eventually, after winning first prize in a gospel contest some time in the mid-1970s, the three sisters are offered a chance to go to a recording studio and release a single, "Chocolate Chip", a song especially written for them. Calling themselves Bang Bang Bang (after their family name), they immediately become popular with both black and white audiences and, in 1977, after their song has hit the charts, start touring both the United States and parts of Europe. While their mother stays behind, Palatine is on the road with them wherever they go ("Them times was the best I had in my life") as their "wardrobe mistress", "a cleaning woman who they'd drug along to make sure Brenda got up in the morning and Anndora came back at night", as the latter "went out with any Tom, Dick or Harry that invited her" and "couldn't go a whole day without sex".
The entrance into the world of show business leaves some indelible marks on the girls' lives. Whereas Brenda, a big and violent girl generally considered ugly, puts on a lot of weight (especially during their stay in Germany), her sisters are quickly initiated into the world of drug use and abuse. What worries Palatine much more though is Joy's tendency to ignore her being black -- without any chance ever of passing for white as she is far too dark-skinned. Time and again, in the course of more than twenty years, Palatine tries to convince Joy that finding herself a nice coloured boyfriend whom she could marry and have children with would be the right thing to do. ("Don't go falling in love with no limousine, 'cause it won't never propose to you.") However, Joy never listens to her. Rather, she tells Palatine to "think big" and "think white" and does not have a single African American lover. The attraction Joy feels towards WASP men culminates in her affair with an English lord who is married with four little children. One of the rare comic passages of the book is about the three sisters and 60 year-old Palatine going to a charity ball in Knightsbridge, London, where Joy meets her young lord while Palatine dances with an old Englishman (Ch.14):
However, "Chocolate Chip" remains a one hit wonder after an interview given by Brenda to some gay magazine in which she announces her coming out as a lesbian. She leaves the group and goes to Boston, where she takes some menial job at the post office. Anndora goes to Milan, Italy, never to be heard of again, and Joy moves to New York City to be close to Rex Hightower, a country and western singer who seems to be her new boyfriend, "a rednecked toothpick from Oklahoma" who wears "his hair in a ponytail like a woman's" and who arranges for Joy to do occasional backup vocals. Their mother moves to Richmond, Virginia and eventually marries a retired policeman. Palatine and Joy never lose touch completely: From time to time Palatine gets a letter with news from her favourite Bang sister with a few banknotes added; sometimes Joy phones her; and once or twice a year she comes to see Palatine and her husband, who have moved to San Francisco. In the mid-1980s, however, Palatine starts worrying about Joy as on two occasions she borrows money from her.
- The fogyish man with the white hair that I'd shouted don't give yourself a cardiac to must of figured that I was making a pass at him, 'cause the next time that "Chocolate Chip" played he come over to me and pulled me out on the dance floor, and I thanked God that Joy Bang had taught me to do that dance 'cause with me supposed to be their manager that night, it wouldn't of looked right if I hadn't of known how to Chocolate Chip like them old white folks that was trying it.
- "Go 'head with your bad ass self," I said to get him hotted up. I don't know if he knew that was just meant to be friendly and get him dancing better, but it was as much as I could do to give him some encouragement. When he lifted up his leg like a dog ready to pee and stuck out what behind he had and shook it all over, I smiled like he was dancing real good, but not once was he in time with the rhythm. When he got tired of doing the Chocolate Chip he twisted for a while. I laughed to myself and thought if colored folks danced that bad we wouldn't never be allowed on no dance floor.
In March 1987, while Palatine is looking forward to spending a weekend with Joy in Reno gambling, Joy dies, aged only 39, in Taos, New Mexico, allegedly of a massive heart attack. On hearing the bad news, Palatine flies to New York for Joy's funeral. There, in Joy's posh split level apartment, she encounters the whole family. However, rather than being able to mourn Joy's death, she for the first time learns things about Joy which finally force her to abandon her blinkered view of her "God-sent child" and admit that she was a sinner rather than a saint.
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- The writings of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and others similarly reflect the experience of African American women in a white- and male-dominated world.
- In Brian Moore's novel I Am Mary Dunne (1968) the protagonist also remembers the past in long, incoherent flashbacks while going through an important phase in her life.
- Elements of the psychological thriller which pervade Joy are more extensively exploited in novels such as Agatha Christie's Sleeping Murder (1976) or Thomas H. Cook's The Chatham School Affair (1996), in which secrets from the past are also dug up.
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Stub - please refine.Manfred von Thun of Latrobe University in Melbourne, Australia has produced and is refining a functional programming language called Joy based on composition of functions rather than lambda calculus. It has turned out to have many similarities to Forth, due less to design than to a sort of parallel evolution and convergence.
For more comprehensive information, see http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html and http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JoyOfJoy
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Joy is a village located in Mercer County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 373.Geography
Joy is located at 41°11'49" North, 90°52'47" West (41.196923, -90.879702)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.1 km² (0.4 mi²). 1.1 km² (0.4 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 373 people, 156 households, and 104 families residing in the village. The population density is 342.9/km² (888.3/mi²). There are 167 housing units at an average density of 153.5/km² (397.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 99.46% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.54% from two or more races. 1.07% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 156 households out of which 32.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.5% are married couples living together, 9.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% are non-families. 29.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.39 and the average family size is 2.96. In the village the population is spread out with 26.5% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 92.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.6 males. The median income for a household in the village is $36,625, and the median income for a family is $39,722. Males have a median income of $32,232 versus $25,500 for females. The per capita income for the village is $14,201. 18.6% of the population and 12.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 26.9% are under the age of 18 and 4.3% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Joy, Illinois."
Synonyms: JoySynonyms: delight (n), joyfulness (n), joyousness (n), pleasure (n), gladden (v), rejoice (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: sorrow (n), sadden (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Congratulation | Verb: congratulate, gratulate; felicitate; give one joy, wish one joy; compliment; tender one's congratulations, offer one's congratulations; wish many happy returns of the day, wish a merry Christmas and a happy new year. |
Phrase: " I wish you all the joy that you can wish "; best wishes. | |
Content | A heart with room for every joy; ich habe genossen das irdische Gluck ich habe gelebt und geliebet; "nor cast one longing lingering look behind"; "shut up in measureless content"; "sweet are the thoughts that savor of content"; "their wants but few their wishes all confined"; might as well relax and enjoy it. |
Desire | Cassius has a lean and hungry look; " hungry as the grave "; " I was born to other things "; " not what we wish but what we want "; " such joy ambition finds "; " the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none "; ubi mel ibi apes. |
Envy | Phrase: " base envy withers at another's joy "; caeca invidia est; multa petentibus desunt multa;Phrase: " base envy withers at another's joy "; caeca invidia est; multa petentibus desunt multa; summa petit livor. |
Falsehood | Phrase: blandae mendacia lingua; falsus in uno falsus in omnibus; "I give him joy that's awkward at a lie"; la mentira tiene las piernas cortas; "O what a goodly outside falsehood hath". |
Love | Phrase: amantes amentes; credula res amor est; militat omnis amasius; love conquers all, omnia vincit amor; si vis amari ama; " the sweetest joy, the wildest woe ". |
Pleasure | Verb: be pleased; feel pleasure, experience pleasure; Noun: joy; enjoy oneself, hug oneself; be in clover; be in elysium; tread on enchanted ground; fall into raptures, go into raptures. |
Phrase: one's heart leaping with joy. | |
Joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness. | |
A wilderness of sweets; "I wish you all the joy that you can wish"; jour de ma vie; "joy ruled the day and love the night"; "joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt"; "oh happiness, our being's end and aim!"; "there is a pleasure that is born of pain"; "throned on highest bliss"; vedi Napoli e poi muori; zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit. | |
Rejoicing | Verb: rejoice, thank one's stars, bless one's stars; congratulate oneself, hug oneself; rub one's hands, clap one's hands; smack the lips, fling up one's cap; dance, skip; sing, carol, chirrup, chirp; hurrah; cry for joy, jump for joy, leap with joy; exult; (boast); triumph; hold jubilee; (celebrate); make merry; (sport). |
Phrase: the heart leaping with joy; ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire; "Laughter holding both his sides"; " le roi est mort, vive le roi "; "with his eyes in flood with laughter". | |
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Screenplays | If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as if our hard work ain't been in vain for nothing (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) Going to check all the joy houses till I find him. (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward) No joy yet. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Oh, joy. Blisters (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez) | |
Lyrics | How can a person like you bring me joy (The Sign; performing artist: Ace Of Base) She brings joy to me (Biggest Part of Me; performing artist: Ambrosia) My love, my joy, my everything ("Addictive Love"; performing artist: BeBe& CeCe Winans) It's all about joy that comes out of sorrow (All About Soul; performing artist: Billy Joel) There were tears of joy and laughter, people shouted (Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord; performing artist: Boney M) | |
Clever | The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. (references; author: Mark Twain) If we are walking in joy, we are trusting God. (references; author: unknown) Life itself cannot give you joy unless you really will it. (references; author: unknown) One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others. (references; author: unknown) Because you are someone special, I send joy, my love, today. For you are very wonderful in each and every way. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Joy of Sex (1984) Duranta Joy (1973) Joy (1972) Daughters of Joy (1971) Joy Plays (1966) | |
Song Titles | Pride And Joy (performing artist: Marvin Gaye) Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy (performing artist: Ren & Stimpy) Joy To The World (performing artist: Three Dog Night) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The joy of kissing the baby Equator crossing on NOAA Ship MOUNT MITCHELL. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | [King and Queen of Belgium visit NIH] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Thomas Joy.. |
 | [Dedication ceremonies for Buildings 36 and 37] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Thomas Joy.. |  | Senior U.S. commanders assembled for the formal ceremonies in which General of the Army Douglas MacArthur returned the Capital city to the Republic of Korea Government, 29 September 1950. Those present are (from left to right, facing camera): Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Commanding General, First Marine Division; Major General David G. Barr, U.S. Army, Commanding General, Seventh Infantry Division; Brigadier General Thomas J. Cushman, USMC, commanding forward echelon, First Marine Air Wing, and Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Far East. Photographed by Sgt. Ed Barnum, USMC. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN, Commander U.S. Naval Forces Far East (at left), is greeted at Wonsan airfield by Major General Field Harris, USMC, Commanding General of the First Marine Air Wing, 19 October 1950. Elements of the Wing had arrived at Wonsan by air on 13-17 October. Flight operations were sustained by aerial resupply until the landing beaches were opened on 26 October. Note MGen. Harris' shoulder holster and ammunition for a .38 caliber revolver. Credit: NAVY. |  | Thibaut's son was a saint : when they made him a bishop, Thibaut was incoherent with joy, and Blanche wondered whether she ought to be proud and if so, what of. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | With a sudden cry of joy stretched out his hand ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | End of the joy ride. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Love's pilgrimage ; Call to joy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Side entrance to an old hotel in Joy, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Christmas Joy" by Warwick Kay Commentary: "Chrsitmas Present." | "The Joy of Clouds 2 2" by K.C. Hohensee Commentary: "Took these out of a car sun-roof. Beuutiful solar flare action going on!." |
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 | "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desire" by Bach. |
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Armando Zegri | Joy is a fruit that Americans eat green. |
Euripides | Never say that a marriage has more of joy than pain. |
Leonardo Da Vinci | The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. |
Lord Byron | To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | The soul's joy lies in doing. |
Richard Wagner | Joy is not in things, it is in us. |
Virgil | Thus, thus, it is joy to pass to the world below. |
William Blake | Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. |
William Morris | Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | The joy, the gratitude, the exquisite delight of her sensations may be imagined |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | All fear and shyness had quite passed away now, and nothing remained but the pure joy of the music that had thrilled our hearts |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | There was much joy throughout the town, when this greatly desirable object was attained |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The hive of joy opened, and each one brought her honey |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Tears of joy and relief shone in his delighted eyes and his lips parted though they would not speak |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | When I had performed these wonders, they shouted for joy, and danced upon my breast, repeating several times as they did at first, Hekinah degul |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The thrills of joy and thrills of pain are undistinguishable |
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Health | The person may experience sudden and unexplainable feelings of joy, anger, sadness, or nausea. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | Joy TV is not permitted to broadcast local news or current affairs programming; however, it does broadcast BBC news reports. (references) |
Zimbabwe | Joy TV remained the only privately licensed television station, and it was restricted to broadcasting on an available channel that was leased from the ZBC because the Broadcasting Act restricts the creation of an independent transmission facility. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | Following a Supreme Court ruling in 1999 that the Government's monopoly on telecommunications was unconstitutional because it interfered with the right to freedom of expression, the Government for the first time granted a broadcasting license to a private television station, Joy Television (Joy TV). President Mugabe's nephew, Leo Mugabe, reportedly has financial ties to Joy TV, and the ZBC reportedly exercises some editorial control over Joy TV's programming. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J. |
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Laura Schlessinger | I'm not here to help anybody feel better per se. I'm here to help people get better. When they get better and do better, they will feel better. I derive joy from being helpful. It's as simple as that. |
Liza Minnelli | I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Right away. I mean, I was a little bit nervous because I had a kid, I had a baby, Parker. I thought it would be weird to date people, you have a baby. But she's an amazing person. And she brings me tremendous joy. I'm very lucky, I feel. |
Rush Limbaugh | Rush reminded him of a picture showing a black woman crying with joy over the Supreme Court ruling in favor of giving her the power to send her kids to the same private schools that reared Al Gore. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | If the offers made to the Indians were extended to them, they would be hailed with gratitude and joy. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Because he exemplified so well the joy and the zest of living, his death reminds us not so much of our own mortality, but of the possibilities offered to us by life. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. |
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| "Joy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.01% of the time. "Joy" is used about 2,778 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) | 86.01% | 2,389 | 3,742 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.99% | 389 | 14,231 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,778 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "joy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Joy | First name Female | 91,000 | 230 |
| Joy | Last name | 5,000 | 2,509 |
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| "Joy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a joy". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "joy". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Abigail | N/A | Biblical | The father's joy |
| Agabus | N/A | Biblical | The father's joy or feast |
| Ahihud | N/A | Biblical | Of joy |
| Esar-haddon | N/A | Biblical | Joy |
| Esrom | N/A | Biblical | Dart of joy |
| Hadad | N/A | Biblical | Joy |
| Hadassah | N/A | Biblical | Joy |
| Hadrach | N/A | Biblical | Joy of tenderness |
| Hezron | N/A | Biblical | The dart of joy |
| Illyricum | N/A | Biblical | Joy |
| Jahdo | N/A | Biblical | His joy |
| Jedeiah | N/A | Biblical | The joy of the Lord |
| Jehdeiah | N/A | Biblical | Joy together |
| Sardis | N/A | Biblical | Prince of joy |
| Sheshan | N/A | Biblical | Joy |
| Sheshbazzar | N/A | Biblical | Joy in tribulation |
| Sheshbazzar | N/A | Biblical | Joy of the vintage |
| Shushan | N/A | Biblical | Joy |
| Susanna | N/A | Biblical | Joy |
| Susannah | N/A | Biblical (Variant) | Joy |
| Zuzana | N/A | Czech | Joy |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| The following table summarizes names related to "Joy." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Joi | Female | English | Joy |
| Joy | Female | English | N/A |
| Joye | Female | English | Joy |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| South Africa | All Joy Foods Limited | USA | Joy Global, Inc. |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Joy, IL (village, FIPS 38739) |
Expressions using "joy": a heart with room for every joy ♦ be bursting with joy ♦ be delirious with joy ♦ be full of joy ♦ be radiant with joy ♦ be resplendent with joy ♦ be transported with joy ♦ beaming with joy ♦ beside oneself with joy ♦ bid joy ♦ bid smb. joy ♦ bill Joy ♦ burst with joy ♦ cause joy ♦ creativ joy ♦ cry of joy ♦ cry with joy ♦ delirious with joy ♦ entranced with joy ♦ express joy ♦ fill with joy ♦ full of joy ♦ i wish you joy of it! ♦ indulgence in joy ♦ joy powder ♦ joy ride ♦ joy stick ♦ Joy touch ♦ jump for joy ♦ leap for joy ♦ leap with joy ♦ malicious joy ♦ manifestation of joy ♦ Mount Joy ♦ my heart leaped for joy ♦ one's heart leaping with joy ♦ pride and joy ♦ radiant with joy ♦ share in smb.'s joy ♦ shed tears of joy ♦ shout for joy ♦ shout of joy ♦ shout with joy ♦ Simpler's joy ♦ source of joy ♦ swoon for joy ♦ swooned for joy ♦ tears of joy ♦ thrill of joy ♦ transport of joy ♦ transported with joy ♦ traveler's joy ♦ traveller's joy ♦ William Joy ♦ wish smb. joy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "joy": joy-boy, joy-ride, joy-rider, joy-riders, joy-rides, joy-ridin', joy-riding, joy-stained, joy-stick. | |
Ending with "joy": Hilary-joy, Kill-joy, no-joy. | |
Containing "joy": son-of-joy-division. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
joy of cooking | 1,152 | joy stick | 70 |
joy | 960 | jenna joy | 67 |
joy division | 528 | joy to the world | 60 |
joy behrman | 508 | the mighty cloud of joy | 56 |
joy luck club | 336 | hentai joy nurse | 55 |
joy of sex | 300 | joy of a toy | 54 |
joy bryant | 199 | joy behar | 52 |
joy ride | 192 | jump for joy | 51 |
joy williams | 177 | joy nurse | 50 |
ode to joy | 152 | bisco joy | 50 |
ebony joy | 151 | joy adamson | 49 |
foot joy | 103 | joy harmon | 49 |
joy fm | 91 | arcade classic joy power | 48 |
dara joy | 90 | joy mangano | 46 |
interracial joy | 88 | joy motion | 45 |
mount joy pa | 85 | joy night | 45 |
jesu joy of man desiring | 83 | joy rachel scott | 42 |
joy enriquez | 78 | autumn joy sedum | 41 |
division joy lyrics | 76 | joy n toy | 40 |
dr joy brown | 72 | dr joy browne | 40 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "joy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vreugde (gladness). (various references) | |
Albanian | gëzim (cheer, enjoyment, festivity, gaiety, gladness, glee, merriment, mirth, rejoice, waggery). (various references) | |
Arabic | فرح (cheer, cheerful, delight, gaiety, gladden, gladness, glee, gleesome, gloat, happy, joyful, liven up, rejoicing, thaw, tickle), مصدر الإبتهاج, مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, 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), قرة العين (darling, pleasure, sweetheart), سعادة (beatitude, excellency, felicity, gladness, glee, happiness, his excellency, privilege, sunshine, weal, welfare, well being), سراء (hypocrite, weal), إبتهاج (acclamation, airiness, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, ecstasy, exhilaration, exultation, festival, festivity, gaiety, jubilation, lustiness, pleasure, rejoicing, spree, sunshine), بهجة (cheering, delectation, delight, felicity, festival, gladness, merriment). (various references) | |
Basque | poz (happiness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | удоволствие (amusement, delectation, delight, enjoyment, gratification, gusto, kick, luxury, pleasance, pleasure, relish, satisfaction, sport), радвам се (be glad, delight, exult, glory, rejoicing), радвам (delight, gladden, lighten, rejoice, tickle), радост (delight, enjoyment, gladness, glee, jocundity, jubilance, mirth, rejoicing, sunshine), приятно ми е (be glad, please, relish), източник на удоволствие, източник на радост, доставям удоволствие (charm, gratify, regale). (various references) | |
Chinese | 禧 , 喜悦 (Pleased), 悰 , 樂趣 (delight, pleasure). (various references) | |
Czech | radost (delight, gladness, merriment, pleasure, treat), potìšení (delight, enjoyment, pleasure, thrill), štìstí (cess, felicity, fortune, good luck, happiness, luck, sunshine, utility). (various references) | |
Danish | glæde (gladness). (various references) | |
Dutch | vreugde (gladness), verheuging (gladness), verheugenis (gladness), blijdschap (gladness), blýheid (gladness), blýdschap (gladness). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĝojo (gladness), ĝojeco (gladness). (various references) | |
Faeroese | gleði (gladness), frøi (gladness, triumph). (various references) | |
Farsi | مسرت (Joyance), لذت بردن از (Relish), لذت (Delight, Gusto, Pleasure), حظ (Unction), سرور (Overlord), خوشی (Bliss, Cheer, Curvet, Delight, Felicity, Gala, Glee, Gust, Hilarity, Jamboree, Jollification, Jollity, Joviality, Joyance, Lark, Mirth, Paradise, Pleasure, Ploy, Splurge, Spree), خوشحالی کردن , شادی کردن (Exult, Rejoice, Revel). (various references) | |
Finnish | ilo (delight, gladness, pleasure, rejoicing). (various references) | |
French | joie (jocosity). (various references) | |
Frisian | blydskip (gladness). (various references) | |
German | Freude (blitheness, delight, enjoyment, fun, funnies, gladness, glee, gratification, happiness, joice, joyousness, mirth, pleasure). (various references) | |
Greek | χαρά (delight, delight in, elation, exhilaration, gladness, glee, mirth, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | gëzim (gladness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמחה (cheer, exhilaration, felicity, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, mirth), ששון (delight, merriment, mirth, rejoicing), עליזות (cheerfulness, fun, gaiety, lightheartedness, mirth, playfulness), עלזה, עונג (delight, enjoyment, pleasure), ענוג (delicate, delight, effeminate, enjoyment, fine, mild, pleasure, tender), חדוה (delight, exultation, gladness), דיצה (amusement), גילה (delight, discover, exultation, find out, gladness), גיל (age, delight, exultation, gladness, glee), בדיחות (facetiousness, fun), רון (exultation, singing, song), רנה (exultation, singing, song), צהלה (exultation, hilarity, merriment, mirth, rejoicing, roar, shouting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | öröm (delight, fun, gladness, gratification, groove, jubilant, jubilation, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keriangan (gaiety, hilarity, merriment), kegembiraan (excitement, excuberance, exhilaration, gaiety, gladness, happiness, mirth, rhapsody). (various references) | |
Irish | Úthas (gladness), áthas (happiness). (various references) | |
Italian | gioia (delight, enjoyment, gem, gladness, glee, jewel, joyfulness, joyousness, mirth, rejoicing), consolazione (comfort, consolation, pleasure, solace). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 愉悦 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きねつ (gladness), きえつ, かいさい (exultation, holding a meeting, open an exhibition, settlement), ゆえつ, ジョイ , よろこび (congratulations, delight, felicitations, gratification, pleasure, rapture, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Korean | 기쁨. (various references) | |
Lombard | allegria (gladness). (various references) | |
Manx | boggey (joyfulness, scumble). (various references) | |
Norwegian | glede (delight, enjoyment, gladness, gratify, zest). (various references) | |
Occitan | jòia (happiness), gaug (happiness). (various references) | |
Papiamen | alegria (gladness), alegría (gladness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oyjay.(various references) | |
Polish | radość (gladness). (various references) | |
Portuguese | alegria (bliss, cheer, conviviality, delight, enjoyment, exhilaration, exultancy, felicity, frolic, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, hilarity, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joyfulness, jubilance, jubilation, light-heartedness, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing, sunshine, vivacity, whoopee). (various references) | |
Romanian | voioşie (amenity, cheerfulness, glee, jauntiness, jocundity, jollification, jollity, 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, jollity, joviality, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings), plãcere (amusement, delight, enjoyment, gusto, liking, mind, palate, pleasure, pleasuring, prize, satisfaction, unction, willingness), fericire (blessedness, blessing, bliss, felicity, happiness, luckiness, prize, welfare, well), confort (comfort, convenience, cosiness), bucurie (cheerfulness, comfort, delight, ecstasy, enjoyment, exhilaration, exultation, felicity, gayety, gladness, glee, gusto, happiness, merriment, merriness, mirth, pleasure, rapture, raptures, treat), bucura (brighten, cheer, delight, feast, gladden, gratify, rejoice), înveseli (amuse, cheer, deck, divert, elevate, enliven, exhilarate, gladden, jazz up, liven, rejoice, smooth). (various references) | |
Russian | радость (chuckle, gladness, glee, mirth, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Scottish | sodan (caressing, expression of gladness at seeing or), sòlas (comfort, consolation, contentment, solace), meadhail (glee. Also meadhar), mùirn (affectionate joy, tenderness), gàirdeachas (rejoicing), aoibhneas (gladness, pleasure), aighear (gaiety, gladness, mirth). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veselost (cheerfulness, exuberance, exuberancy, facetiousness, happiness, jocosity, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, mirth, pleasantry), veselje (celebration, festivity, frolic, hilarity, jollification, merriment, merrymaking, rollick), sreća (blessedness, blessing, chance, felicity, fortune, good luck, hap, happiness, luck), radovati se (be happy, look forward, look forward to, rejoice), radost (gladness, joyfulness, jubilance, merriment, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Spanish | alegría (breeziness, cheerfulness, chuff, contention, contentment, fun, gaiety, gladness, happiness, hilarity, joyfulness, kaif, keif, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, mirth, perkiness, pertness, playfulness, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Swahili | furaha (gladness). (various references) | |
Swedish | fröjd (delight, fun, gladness, pleasure, rejoicing), glädje (cheer, delight, elation, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, jollity, joyfulness, joyousness, mirth, pleasance, satisfaction). (various references) | |
Thai | ความสุขสันต์. (various references) | |
Turkish | sonuç (aftermath, close, conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, decision, deduction, denouement, effect, end, event, finding, fruit, harvest, inference, issue, outcome, payoff, produce, product, result, resultant, sequel, show, success, sum, upshot), sevinç (delight, elation, exultation, gaiety, gladness, glee, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing), neşe kaynağı, neşe (brightness, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, esprit, exhilaration, frolic, gaiety, glee, hilarity, humor, humour, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, merriment, mirth, pleasantry, raciness, rejoicing, spirit, sprightliness, sunshine, vivacity), mutluluk kaynağı, lezzet (daintiness, Flavor, flavour, gladness, good taste, lusciousness, relish, salt, sapidity, sauce, savor, savoriness, savour, savouriness, smack, taste, zest), keyif (bliss, cheer, conviviality, delight, enchantment, exhilaration, glee, high spirits, humor, humour, joviality, Kef, pleasure, rejoicing, temper), haz (delight, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, gratification, gusto, indulgence, pleasure, rejoicing, relish), başarı (accomplishment, achievement, click, deed, effort, feat, go, hit, performance, prosperity, show, smash, speed, stroke, success, triumph, victory, win), çok sevinme (jubilance, jubilation). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юatlyk, яagtylyk (gladness, light), begenз. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | утіха (amusement, comfort, refuge, resort, solace), радість (amusement, exultance, exultancy, gladness, joyfulness, rejoicing, sunshine), радіти (gladden, satisfy), радувати (brighten, glad, gladden, rejoice), зручність (convenience, easement). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự vui sướng niềm vui, sự vui mừng (cheerfulness, festivity, gladness, joyfulness, joyousness), sự hân hoan (cheerfulness, elation, gladness, jubilance, jubilation). (various references) | |
Welsh | solas (solace), menwyd (delight, mirth, pleasure), lloniant (cheer), llonder (gladness), llawenydd (gladness, mirth), hoen (gladness, vigor), gorfoledd (rejoicing, triumph), gorawen (ecstacy). (various references) | |
Xhosa | kuyavuyisa (It's a joy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | asilal, hul, kiri-zal, la-la, sil, ul. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Clematis vitalba L., exultatio, exultatione, exultationem, exultationis, gaudii, gaudio, gaudium, gaudiumque, laetatio, laetatio letatio, laetatio, letatio, laetitia, laetitiae, laetitiam, laetitiarum, laetitiis, tripudium. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | bletsung, dream, hyht, liss. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | liste. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de epi ta petrwdh spareiV outoV estin o ton logon akouwn kai euquV meta caraV lambanwn auton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui autem supra petrosa seminatus est hic est qui verbum audit et continuo cum gaudio accipit illud |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Soðlice se þe ofer stan asawen is. þætis se þe þæt godes word ge-hyrð & hrædliceþæt mid blisse onfegð. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But this that is sowun on the stony loond, this it is, that herith the word of God, and anoon with ioye takith it. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But he yt was sowne in ye stony groude is he which heareth the worde of God and anone wt ioye receaveth it |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and immediately with joy receiveth it; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | Ug mahitungod niadtong gikasabod diha sa kabatoan, kini mao kadtong magapatalinghug sa pulong ug dihadiha iya kining dawaton uban sa kalipay; |
| Croatian | A zasijani na tlo kamenito - to je onaj koji èuje Rijeè i odmah je s radošæu prima, |
| Danish | Men det, som blev sået på Stengrund, er den, som hører Ordet og straks modtager det med Glæde. |
| Dutch | Maar die in steenachtige plaatsen bezaaid is, deze is degene, die het Woord hoort, en dat terstond met vreugde ontvangt; |
| Finnish | Mikä kallioperälle kylvettiin, on se, joka kuulee sanan ja heti ottaa sen ilolla vastaan; |
| French | Celui qui a reçu la semence dans les endroits pierreux, c`est celui qui entend la parole et la reçoit aussitôt avec joie; |
| German | Das aber auf das Steinige gesät ist, das ist, wenn jemand das Wort hört und es alsbald aufnimmt mit Freuden; |
| Hungarian | A mely pedig a köves helyre esett, ez az, a ki hallja az ígét, és mindjárt örömmel fogadja; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Benih yang jatuh di tempat yang berbatu-batu, ibarat orang-orang yang mendengar kabar itu, dan langsung menerimanya dengan senang hati. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi yang tertabur di tempat berbatu-batu, itulah orang yang mendengar Perkataan itu, lalu segeralah menyambut dia dengan sukacitanya; |
| Italian | Quello che è stato seminato nel terreno sassoso è l'uomo che ascolta la parola e subito l'accoglie con gioia, |
| Manx Gaelic | Agh eshyn ghow yn rass ayns ynnydyn claghagh, shen eh ta clashtyn y goo, as jeeragh lesh boggey dy ghoaill eh: |
| Maori | Ko te tangata ia i nga purapura i nga wahi kohatu, ko te tangata i rongo ki te kupu, a hohoro tonu te tango, hari tonu; |
| Norwegian | Men den som blev sådd på stengrunn, det er den som hører ordet og straks tar imot det med glede; |
| Portuguese | E o que foi semeado nos lugares pedregosos, este é o que ouve a palavra, e logo a recebe com alegria; |
| Rumanian | Sqmknya cqzutq kn locuri stkncoase, este cel ce aude Cuvkntul, wi -l primewte kndatq cu bucurie; |
| Russian | б РПУЕСООПЕ ОБ ЛБНЕОЙУФЩИ НЕУФБИ ПЪОБЮБЕФ ФПЗП, ЛФП УМЩЫЙФ УМПЧП Й ФПФЮБУ У ТБДПУФША РТЙОЙНБЕФ ЕЗП; |
| Shuar | Arak kaya írunmanum iniaarma nuka shuar Yus-Chichaman antuk waras umirainia Núiti. |
| Spanish | Y el que fue sembrado en pedregales es el que oye la palabra y en seguida la recibe con gozo; |
| Swahili | Ile mbegu iliyopandwa penye mawe ni mfano wa mtu asikiaye ujumbe huo na mara akaupokea kwa furaha. |
| Swedish | Och att den såddes på stengrunden, det är sagt om den som väl hör ordet och strax tager emot det med glädje, |
| Uma | "Hawua' to monawu' hi tana' to watua-hawo mpobatuai tauna to mpo'epe Kareba Lompe', ncaliu goe' nono-ra mpo'epe. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "joy": joyance, joyances, joyed, joyful, joyfuller, joyfullest, joyfully, joyfulness, joyfulnesses, joying, joyless, joylessly, joylessness, joylessnesses, joyous, joyously, joyousness, joyousnesses, joypop, joypopped, joypopper, joypoppers, joypopping, joypops, joyridden, joyride, joyrider, joyriders, joyrides, joyriding, joyridings, joyrode, joys, joystick, joysticks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "joy": enjoy, killjoy, overjoy, reenjoy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "joy": enjoyable, enjoyableness, enjoyablenesses, enjoyably, enjoyed, enjoyer, enjoyers, enjoying, enjoyment, enjoyments, enjoys, killjoys, overjoyed, overjoying, overjoys, reenjoyed, reenjoying, reenjoys, unjoyful. (additional references) | |
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"Joy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ajoy, cjoy, eoy, Ioy, jacy, jady, jafy, jaly, jaoy, jaty, jaye, jayn, jeey, jefy, jegy, jei, jeo, jey, jho, Jii, jio, jiony, Jipy, jity, jivy, jiy, Jiye, jny, joa, joay, joby, joc, jod, jody, joey, jof, jogy, joh, joi, joic, joid, joif, joil, joim, joir, joiv, joiz, jok, joky, Jol, joly, jom, jon, Jony, joo, jooy, jop, joq, jor, jos, josy, joty, jou, jov, jovy, Jow, jox, joxy, joya, joyb, joye, joyi, joyn, joyo, joyt, joz, ju, Juby, juf, jugy, juh, jui, jumy, jusy, juty, juv, juy, juz, jy, jym, koy, Njoya, oj, ojay, oji, oy, voy, yoy, zoy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "joy" (pronounced joy") |
| 2 | j oy" | enjoy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "j-o-y" | |
-1 letter: jo, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "j-o-y" | |
+1 letter: joey, joky, joys. | |
+2 letters: enjoy, joeys, jokey, jolly, jolty, jotty, jowly, joyed. | |
+3 letters: enjoys, jalopy, jockey, johnny, jokily, jouncy, joyful, joying, joyous, joypop. | |
+4 letters: enjoyed, enjoyer, jaloppy, jobbery, jockeys, joinery, jointly, jollify, jollily, jollity, joltily, journey, joyance, joyless, joypops, joyride, joyrode, killjoy, majorly, nonjury, overjoy, reenjoy. | |
+5 letters: cajolery, enjoyers, enjoying, jealousy, jeopardy, jockeyed, jocosely, jocosity, jocundly, jokingly, jollying, journeys, jovially, jovialty, joyances, joyfully, joyously, joyrider, joyrides, joystick, juratory, killjoys, majority, overjoys, popinjay, reenjoys, unjoyful. | |
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