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Definition: Joyous |
JoyousAdjective1. Full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon". 2. Full of or suggesting exultant happiness; "a joyful heart"; "a joyful occasion"; "the joyous news"; "joyous laughter". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "joyous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Joyous \Joy"ous\, adjective. [from Old English expression joyous, joious, joios, French joyeux.See Joy.]. (references) |
Synonym: JoyousSynonym: joyful (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: joyless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheerfulness | Merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell; joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy; blithesome; gleeful, gleesome; hilarious, rattling. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Joyous |
| English words defined with "joyous": Blitheful, blithely ♦ celebration, Chirrupy ♦ damp ♦ festivity ♦ gayly, Glad on 't, gleefully, Gleesome ♦ happily ♦ joyful, joyfully, joyously, jubilantly ♦ merrily, mirthfully ♦ -ous ♦ with happiness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "joyous": Atonement ♦ Bells, Bugle ♦ Dances, Doves, Dulce Domum ♦ Hand, Heather Bells ♦ Letter ♦ Plums, Prairie ♦ Ring One's Own Bell ♦ Sun, Sword-makers ♦ Violets ♦ Wheat ♦ you rock the Catscales, Yule Log. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A joyous celebration of boobery, that's what it is. (Edtv; writing credit: Émile Gaudreault; Sylvie Bouchard) We are gathered to celebrate here today the joyous union of Ross and Emily (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Joyous Troublemaker (1920) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Nursery rhymes for infant industries. An alphabet of joyous trusts--no. 5 / F. Opper. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Alexander Maclaren | Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1913) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Emma saw how Mr. Weston understood these joyous prospects |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | These nuns are not joyous, rosy, and cheerful, as are often the daughters of other orders |
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| "Joyous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.84% of the time. "Joyous" is used about 172 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.84% | 170 | 23,898 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.16% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 172 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
joyous | 8 |
celebration joyous | 6 |
center energy joyous life | 4 |
bright color joyous range | 3 |
happy joyous | 3 |
joyous noise | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "joyous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i lumtur (blessed, blissful, carefree, felicitous, fortunate, happy, joyful, lucky), i gëzuar (airy, blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, coltish, glad, Gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, larky, lightsome, merry, mirthful, oared, sprightly), gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, set up, zippy). (various references) | |
Arabic | 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, joy, joyful, joyfulness, 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), مبهج (buoyant, cheerful, delightful, enjoyable, entrancing, gladsome, heavenly, joyful, winsome, yummy), مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat), سعيد (auspicious, blessed, blissful, blithe, carefree, felicitous, fortuitous, fortunate, gay, glad, happy, happy go lucky, high, in high spirits, joyful, lucky, merry, pi, pollyanna, providential, thankful, unstressed, upbeat), سار (enjoyable, joyful, pleasing, pleasurable). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | радостен (cheerful, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, jocund, joyful, lightsome, lusty, merry, mirthful), щастлив (auspicious, blessed, favored, favoured, fortunate, glad, happy, joyful, lucky, palmy, providential, saturnian, well), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome). (various references) | |
Chinese | 逌 (distant, satisfied), 喜悅 (happy), 欢悦, 歡樂 (gaiety, gay, gladness, glee, happy, merriment, pleasure), 歡 (happy, pleased). (various references) | |
Czech | veselý (blithesome, bright, cheerful, chirpy, convivial, exhilarated, gay, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, hilarious, humorous, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, pleasant, rollicking, rorty, sportful, vivacious), radostný (blithe, cheerful, cheery, exhilarating, festive, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good, jolly, joyful, jubilant, rorty). (various references) | |
Finnish | riemuisa (joyful). (various references) | |
French | joyeux (joyful), gai (jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, joyful), enjoué (jocose, jocular, jolly, joyful), content (joyful). (various references) | |
German | fröhlich (blithe, blithesome, bright, brightly, cheerful, cheerfully, cheerily, festive, gay, gladly, gladsome, gleeful, happily, happy, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, jovially, lighthearted, liltingly, merrily, merry, mirthful, mirthfully, upbeat), erfreuliche (gratifyingly). (various references) | |
Greek | περιχαρήσ (above oneself, glad, joyful, jubilant, overjoyed), χαροπόσ (airy, gleeful, gleesome, jocund, jolly), εύθυμοσ (blithe, chirpy, convivial, debonair, festive, frabjous, gay, happy go lucky, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, light hearted, merry, mirthful, resilient, sprightly, zippy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משמח (cheerful, glad, joyful), שמח (cheerful, delighted, gay, glad, gleeful, gleesome, happy, jolly, jovial, joyful, merry, pleased). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vidám (amused, blithe, blithe as a lark, bobbish, cheerful, chirpy, comic, comical, daft, dashing, droll, exhilarated, felicitous, frisky, frolicsome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, light hearted, light-hearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, rejoicing, rollicking, sprightly, sunny, to be in high spirits). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sumringah (glad, happy). (various references) | |
Italian | gioioso (blithesome, buxom, cheerful, festive, joyful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 芽出度い (happy, propitious, simple soul), 目出度い (happy, propitious, simple soul), 喜ばしい (delightful, happy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | めでたい (auspicious, happy, propitious, simple soul), よろ"ばしい (delightful, gratifying, happy, joyful). (various references) | |
Manx | suntee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oyousjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jubiloso (jubilant, mirthful, triumphant), feliz (blissful, carefree, felicitous, fortunate, gay, glad, gladsome, happy, lucky, merry, palmy, prosperous, providential, successful), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references) | |
Romanian | voios (cheerful, cheerfully, exhilarated, festival, genial, genially, glad, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, mellow, merrily, merry, mirthful, saucy), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton). (various references) | |
Russian | радостный (glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, heartwarming, joyful, merry, mirthful, roseate), веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly). (various references) | |
Scottish | sogail (festive), aobhach (cheerful, glad), aighearach (gay, glad), éibhinn (happy; odd). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veseo (blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, exuberant, festive, frolic, gay, happy, jocose, jolly, jovial, joyful, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, rejoicing, rollicking), radostan (blithe, glad, gladdening, gladsome, gleesome, hilarious, jocund, jolly, joyful, merry, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Spanish | jubiloso (cock-a-hoop, exultant, gleeful, joyful, jubilant), de jubiloso. (various references) | |
Swedish | fylld av glädje. (various references) | |
Thai | สนุกสนาน (fun, gamesome, groove, jolly, lark, revel). (various references) | |
Turkish | sevindirici (gladsome, happy, happy go lucky, joyful, rejoicing), sevinçli (elated, glad, gladsome, happy, jovial, joyful, mirthful, rejoicing), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | радісний (cheery, cock-a-hoop, elate, elated, festal, glad, gleeful, heartwarming, joyful, jubilant, roseate, rosy), щасливий (blessed, blithe, chancy, felicitous, fortunate, golden, happy, joyful, lucky, overjoyed, palmy, providential, thrifty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui sướng (gleeful, gleesome, happy, jubilant), vui mừng (cheerful, glad, gladsome, joyful). (various references) | |
Welsh | hoenus (blithe, blithesome, gay). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | festa, feste, festi, festis, festo, festos, festum, festus, gauisus, laetabilis letabilis, laetans, laetifica, laetificus, laetificus letificus, laetificus, letificus. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 23, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ouc auth hn umwn h ubriV h ap' archV prin h paradoqhnai authn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Numquid non haec vestra est quae gloriabatur a diebus pristinis in antiquitate sua ducent eam pedes sui longe ad peregrinandum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whether not this youre is, that gloriede fro the rathere dayes in his eelde? leden shuln it aferr hir feet to pilgrymagen. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her far off to sojourn. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries? |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 23, Verse 7 |
| Cebuano | Mao ba kini ang inyong malipayong ciudad, kansang pagkakaraan gikan pa sa kanhing mga adlaw, kansang mga tiil maoy modala kaniya sa pagpuyo ngadto sa halayo? |
| Croatian | Je li to vaš grad veseli što postoji od davnih davnina i noge ga daleko nosile da se ondje naseli? |
| Danish | Er det eders jublende By fra Urtids Dage, hvis Fødder førte den viden om som Gæst? |
| Dutch | Is dit uw vrolijk huppelende stad? welker oudheid wel van oude dagen af is; maar haar eigen voeten zullen haar verre wegdragen, om in vreemdelingschap te verkeren. |
| Finnish | Onko tämä teidän remuava kaupunkinne, jonka alku on hamasta muinaisajasta, jonka jalat kuljettivat sen kauas muukalaisena asumaan? |
| French | Est-ce l votre ville joyeuse? Elle avait une origine antique, Et ses pieds la mènent séjourner au loin. |
| German | Ist das eure fröhliche Stadt, die sich ihres Alters rühmte? Ihre Füße werden sie wegführen, zu wallen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lihatlah kotamu Tirus yang sudah ada dari zaman dahulu. Inikah kota yang biasanya bersenang-senang? Inikah kota yang mengirim orang-orang ke seberang laut untuk merantau ke sana? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Inikah untungmu, hai engkau yang lezat dan tamasya! yang asal dari zaman dahulukala. Bahwa kakinya sendiri membawa akan dia jauh-jauh akan menumpang seperti orang dagang. |
| Italian | E' questa la vostra citt gaudente, le cui origini risalgono a un'antichit remota, i cui piedi la portavano lontano per fissarvi dimore? |
| Maori | Ko to koutou pa koa ianei tenei, ko tona tawhito nei no nga ra ano onamata? na ona waewae hoki ia i kawe ki tawhiti noho ai. |
| Norwegian | Er dette eders jublende by, som blev til i fordums dager, hvis føtter bærer den bort til å bo som fremmed i det fjerne? |
| Portuguese | É esta, porventura, a vossa cidade alegre, cuja origem é dos dias antigos, cujos pés a levavam para longe a peregrinar? |
| Rumanian | Aceasta este cetatea voastrq cea veselq, care avea o obkrwie veche, wi ale cqrei picioare o duceau sq locuiascq departe. |
| Russian | ьФП МЙ ЧБЫ МЙЛХАЭЙК ЗПТП", ЛПФПТПЗП ОБЮБМП ПФ "ОЕК "ТЕЧОЙИ? оПЗЙ ЕЗП ОЕУХФ ЕЗП УЛЙФБФШУС Ч УФТБОЕ "БМЕЛПК. |
| Spanish | ¿No era ésta vuestra ciudad alegre, cuyo origen es de gran antigüedad, cuyos pies la llevaron a residir en lugares lejanos? |
| Swedish | Är detta eder glada stad, hon den urgamla, som av sina fötter bars till fjärran land, för att gästa där? |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "joyous": joyously, joyousness, joyousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Joyous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jeeoos, Jekou, Jigoku, joyas, joyeous, joyo, noyous, royaux. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "joyous" (pronounced 'Joy"ous'): Acrosporous, Annoyous, Bisexous, Blendous, Bulbous, Catarrhous, Cobaltous, Croupous, Declinous, Deignous, Fumous, grievous, JEALOUS, Miszealous, Multiformous, Nectareous, Nervous, Noious, Noyous, Overjealous, Overzealous, Pilous, Pious, Polysporous, Pompous, Porous, Portentous, Pulpous, quartzous, Rimous, Salinous, Schorlous, Scious, Spathous, Spitous, Spumeous, Squeamous, Untimeous, Veinous, Venous, Zealous, Zincous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "j-o-o-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: joys. | |
-3 letters: joy, jus, sou, soy, you. | |
-4 letters: jo, os, oy, so, us, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "j-o-o-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: joyously. | |
+4 letters: joyousness. | |
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