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Sense Of Humour

Definition: Sense Of Humour

Sense Of Humour

Noun

1. The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor;" "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Sense Of Humour

Synonyms: humor (n), humour (n), sense of humor (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sense Of Humour

Specialty definitions using "sense of humour": exercise, left as ankremvaxsig quote. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sense Of Humour

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I see you havn't lost your sense of humour, Valentin. (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France)

I've a sense of humour, same as anyone! (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

Movie/TV Titles

Too Keen a Sense of Humour (1911)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Sense Of Humour

Expressions using "sense of humour": fine sense of humour have no sense of humour. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sense Of Humour

Language Translations for "sense of humour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ndjenjë e humorit (sense of humor). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حس ظريف طبيعي (sense of humor). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чувство за хумор (funny bone, humor, humour, sense of humor). (various references)

   

Czech

  

smysl pro humor. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

huumorintaju. (various references)

   

French

  

sens de l'humour. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οξεία αίσθηση του χιούμορ (keen sense of humour). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חוש ""ומור. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

humorérzék (sense of humor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ensesay ofay umourhay

   

Romanian

  

simţ fin al umorului (fine sense of humor, fine sense of humour). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чувство юмора (sense of humor). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

smisao za humor (sense of humor, wit). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sentido del humor (humor, humour). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sinne för humor (sense of humor). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

espri anlayışı (humor, humour, sense of humor), şakadan anlama (sense of humor). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sense Of Humour

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-u-u"

-4 letters: foursomes.

-5 letters: enormous, foursome, freshens, freshmen, honorees, hormones, horsemen, housemen, humorous, moorhens, neuroses, numerous, onrushes, rehouses, senhores, someones, sunroofs, sunrooms, unhorses, unhouses, unmeshes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sense Of Humour


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6E 73 65      4F 66      48 75 6D 6F 75 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01001000 01110101 01101101 01101111 01110101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#101 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#72 &#117 &#109 &#111 &#117 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006E 0073 0065      004F 0066      0048 0075 006D 006F 0075 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5371808571249722428779818784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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