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Definition: Joyously |
JoyouslyAdverb1. In a joyous and gleeful manner; "the old man had greeted her gleefully". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "joyously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: JoyouslySynonyms: gleefully (adv), joyfully (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: joylessly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Joyously |
| English words defined with "joyously": Alacrious ♦ ebullient, exuberant ♦ Festally ♦ high-spirited. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Family of workers and peasants joyously welcome the New Year. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A few yellow leaves, relics of the last autumn, chased one another joyously, and seemed to be playing the (r)gamin. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad and the preacher stopped to watch, and suddenly Joad laughed joyously. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Joyously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 97.87% of the time. "Joyously" is used about 47 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 97.87% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "joyously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | freudig (enthusiastic, glad, happy, joyful, joyfully, joyous, pleasurable, willing). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | boldogan (fain, gaily, gayly, gladly, happily). (various references) | ||||
Italian | pieno di gioia (cheerful). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oyouslyjay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "j-l-o-o-s-u-y-y" | |
-2 letters: joyous. | |
-3 letters: lousy. | |
-4 letters: joys, loos, solo, soul. | |
-5 letters: joy, jus, loo, sly, sol, sou, soy, you. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 6F 79 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01101111 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J o y o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 006F 0079 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4481918187857891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | német, tedesco |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | Ungar, magyar, ungherese |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italienisch, olasz, italiano |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, angol, inglese |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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