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Definition: Fun |
FunAdjective1. Providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining; "an amusing speaker"; "a diverting story"; "a fun thing to do". Noun1. Activities that are enjoyable or amusing; "I do it for the fun of it"; "he is fun to have around". 2. Verbal wit (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun". 3. Violent and excited activity; "she asked for money and then the fun began"; (colloquial) "they began to fight like fun". 4. A disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement; "her playfulness surprised me"; "he was fun to be with". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fun" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Fun \Fun\, noun. [Perh. of Celtic origin; compare to Irish Gaelic fonn pleasure.]. (references) |
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Computing | Fun A typed lambda-calculus, similar to SOL[2]. "On Understanding Types, Data Abstractions and Polymorphism", L. Cardelli et al, ACM Comp Surveys 17(4) (Dec 1985). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
19th Century Satire | Joy. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Literature | Fun To make fun of. To make a butt of; to ridicule; to play pranks on one. (Compare Irish fonn, delight.) Like fun. Thoroughly, energetically, with delight. "On'y look at the dimmercrats, see what they've done, Jest simply by stickin' together like fun." Lowell: Biglow Papers (First series iv. stanza 5). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | FUN. A cheat, or trick. Do you think to fun me out of it? Do you think to cheat me?--Also the breech, perhaps from being the abbreviation of fundament. I'll kick your fun. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FUN | English | Flow Update Notification | Computer - (LFAP) |
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Synonyms: FunSynonyms: amusing (adj), amusive (adj), diverting (adj), fun(a) (adj), merriment (n), play (n), playfulness (n), sport (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Noun: amusement, entertainment, recreation, fun, game, fun and games; diversion, divertissement; reaction, solace; pastime, passetemps, sport; labor of love; pleasure. |
Fun, frolic, merriment, jollity; joviality, jovialness; heyday; laughter; jocosity, jocoseness; drollery, buffoonery, tomfoolery; mummery, pleasantry; wit; quip, quirk. | |
Adjective: amusing, entertaining, diverting; Verb: recreational, recreative, lusory; pleasant; (pleasing); laughable; (ludicrous); witty; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious. | |
Ridicule | Turn into ridicule; make merry with; make fun of, make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; rally; scoff; (disrespect). |
Play upon, play tricks upon; fool to the top of one's bent; laugh at, grin at, smile at; poke fun at. | |
Wit | Verb: joke, jest, crack a joke, make a joke, jape, cut jokes; perpetrate a joke; pun, perpetrate a pun; make fun of, make merry with; kid, kid around, fool around; set the table in a roar; (amuse). |
Farce, buffoonery, fooling, tomfoolery; shenanigan, harlequinade; broad farce, broad humor; fun, espieglerie; vis comica. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fun |
| English words defined with "fun": amateurism, amusing, amusive, antic ♦ blackguard ♦ caper, Chaffing ♦ diverting ♦ festal, festive ♦ gala, game, gay, gentle, guy ♦ hell raising ♦ jest at, jocosity, jocularity, joke ♦ kid ♦ laugh at ♦ make fun, merriment, merry ♦ parody, planning, playful, playfulness, poke fun, prank, puddle, pull the leg of, put-on ♦ raising hell, rib, ridicule ♦ social, spoof ♦ To brim over, To laugh at, To poke fun, trick. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fun": Dromio ♦ Figure of Fun, FUN-HOUSE OPERATOR ♦ Gautier ♦ Hunting of the Hare ♦ Jeff K. ♦ Les Anguilles de Melun, Lun ♦ O'Doherty, off the hizzie fo' shizzie ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, recursive type, Rigdum Funnidos, ROCKEFELLER, RUM FUN, Running the Hood ♦ slammin, SPREE, Stinkomalee', story ♦ Taking the mick, Taking the piss ♦ up in the cut ♦ walk-through operator. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fun": Agog. (references) |
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Screenplays | She's not having any fun, though (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) If life's an awful bore, and living's just a chore that we do caus' death's not much fun. I just have the antidote, and though i mustn't gloat at the Moulin Rouge (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) Sure, change is fun, for awhile (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) Look at the fun bags on that hose hound (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.) You think this metal man is fun, but who built it (The Iron Giant; writing credit: Brad Bird) | |
Lyrics | But then again, maybe that could be fun (I WANNA HAVE SOME FUN; performing artist: Samantha Fox) Oh everybody have fun tonight (Everybody Have Fun Tonight; performing artist: Wang Chung) It's fun to lose ("Smells Like Teen Spirit"; performing artist: Nirvana) Lickin' your lips at me for fun (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW) Just laying on the beach and having fun (All That She Wants; performing artist: Ace Of Base) | |
Clever | If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. (references; author: Bob Hope) Imagination is intelligence having fun. (references; author: unknown) Silence is golden, but shouting is fun. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fun and Games (1973) Adult Fun (1972) Fun in the Sun (1971) Archie's Fun House (1970) Adultery for Fun and Profit (1970) | |
Song Titles | I Wanna Have Some Fun (performing artist: Samantha Fox) Hot Fun in the Summertime (performing artist: Sly and the Family Stone) Fun Fun Fun (performing artist: The Beach Boys) Everybody Have Fun Tonight (performing artist: Wang Chung) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | More fun in Glacier Bay area Cartoon by Clarence Petersen Off of WESTDAHL. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Time for a little fun Climbing a mushroom coral rock FATHOMER in background offshore. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Having fun at Lauderdale by the Sea - sunbathing, sailing, and parasailing. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Digging out a weasel - not a fun job when it's 40 degrees below zero. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Family fun - fishing from the jetty at Port Aransas. Credit: Fisheries. |  | People having fun at the beach of Lake Icaria in the Walters Creek Watershed project in Adams County. Lake Icaria was formed by a watershed dam that was built to control erosion and flooding. Credit: Gene Alexander. |
 | Dune buggies can be great fun on Arizona public lands, but please be careful!. Credit: Beth Perault. |  | Recreationists having fun at the lake on a warm summer holiday weekend. Credit: Lori Cook. |
 | When fun can lead to a funeral. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Eat nutritious food. Find fun in exercise. Sleep and relaxation. Cleanliness. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Fun in the rain" by Max Gaugush Commentary: "My friends and I having some fun in a really big rainstorm at summer camp." | "Fun fireworks" by Red Bull Commentary: "Steamfair 8." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alice James | The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in? |
Emo Philips | I was driving down the highway, and I'm swerving all over, coz I'm trying to change the radio, and just as I get the old one taken out I hear this traffic cop behind me, "Whee-oo, whee-oo, whee-oo!" Well, I shouldn't make fun of his speech impediment. He asks me to walk in a straight line, so I do, then he asks me, "You call that a straight line?" Well, I should have said, I *should* have said, "Yes." But I was nervous and the only thing I could think of was "Well, Officer Pythagoras, the closest you'll ever come to a straight line is if they do an electroencephalagram of your own brainwave." |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. |
Jack Paar | Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it. |
Josh Billings | Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. |
Katharine Hepburn | If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. |
Louisa May Alcott | Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. |
Thomas A. Edison | I never did a days' work in my life -- it was all fun. |
William Blake | Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I make fun of your perfections, excellences, and good qualities |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | That was the meaning of Tower of Ivory but protestants could not understand it and made fun of it. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Why should calamity be fun of words |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Be fun purty soon |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Encourage your child to develop healthy friendships and fun alternatives to drinking. (references) | |
Business | Sales of four-wheel-drive vehicles continue to grow. They are viewed as user-friendly and fun to drive yet handle well and still look good enough to maintain street credibility. (references) | |
Their large presentation areas, which offer complete room designs combinations, meet the present trend for "shopping as a fun thing to do." The market leader is the Swedish cash-and-carry chain IKEA with a good dozen outlets in Germany. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Barry Manilow | Very catchy song. What I had fun doing was building it, starting it really little and building it and changing the key and adding the orchestra and giving it a big ending. I like that. |
Bob Barker | We want high-energy contestants, not necessarily. We want people who are in a good mood. They can be funny and fun quietly. They don't have to jump up and down and scream. If that comes natural for them, do it. |
Dennis Miller | Experts recommend building your confidence by finding some small, fun task you're good at, and making it your hobby. |
Don Rickles | Yeah, because I don't do jokes, per se. I do situations and make fun of authority and life. And I make fun of you, which is always a scream, you know. |
Donald Rumsfeld | This job is complex. It is multidimensional. It is important, because people's lives are at risk. It is challenging. You'd never use the word fun. |
Elton John | I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records. |
Julie Andrews | Oh, because I think it's an everybody lives happily ever after story. It's got some thrills and adventures. It's got tons of fun. Beautiful scenery. Nuns. I mean, everything. |
Robert Novak | You know Mark, it's a lot more fun being majority leader than minority leader, and I think that Trent Lott knows it. I think he'd love to get back in there so he calls up the bills and not Tom Daschle. |
Rush Limbaugh | But it is sooo fun to bash Republicans. |
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George Bush | 1989-1993 | Every year, the press has a field day making fun of outrageous examples, a Lawrence Welk Museum, a research grant for Belgian Endive. |
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| "Fun" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.14% of the time. "Fun" is used about 2,742 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) | 65.14% | 1,786 | 4,726 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 34.35% | 942 | 7,696 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.4% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,742 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fun": be a figure of fun ♦ be fun ♦ figure of fun ♦ for fun ♦ for the fun of it ♦ full of fun ♦ fun fair ♦ have fun ♦ he is great fun ♦ in fun ♦ it was great fun ♦ i've had my whack of fun ♦ just for fun ♦ just for the fun ♦ make fun ♦ make fun of ♦ making fun of ♦ making fun of smb. ♦ mock fun ♦ poke fun ♦ poke fun at ♦ poke fun at smb. ♦ rollicking fun ♦ spoiling the fun ♦ to make fun of ♦ To poke fun ♦ To poke fun at ♦ what fun. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fun": fun-and-games, fun-around-the-clock, fun-boards, fun-boat, fun-break, fun-buses, fun-fair, fun-fairs, fun-fashion, fun-filled, fun-float, fun-fly, fun-flying, fun-for-all-the-family, fun-fur, fun-gun, Fun-in-the-parks, fun-lover, fun-lovers, fun-loving, fun-loving person, fun-making, fun-money, fun-packed, fun-palace, fun-park, fun-poking, fun-quake, fun-run, fun-seekers, fun-seeking, fun-session, fun-sized, fun-thing, fun-time, fun-to-be-with, fun-to-wear, fun-wear. | |
Ending with "fun": ex-fun. | |
| 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 |
fun | 6,924 | fun survey | 316 |
fun game | 6,104 | fun things | 300 |
fun stuff | 3,450 | fun web site | 276 |
family fun | 2,770 | fun jet | 274 |
fun quiz | 2,505 | fun quote | 272 |
world of fun | 1,674 | fun online game | 240 |
summer fun | 906 | slot for fun | 240 |
kid fun | 800 | fun brain.com | 233 |
fun page | 662 | fun forward | 232 |
fun test | 630 | fun radio | 228 |
fun gift | 571 | fun picture | 227 |
fun site | 570 | fun jump | 214 |
family fun magazine | 544 | pool fun | 213 |
fun free game | 423 | fun girl | 212 |
fun fact | 402 | fun jet vacation | 211 |
ocean of fun | 399 | fun job | 210 |
casino game for fun | 348 | fun test quiz | 209 |
fun and game for kid | 339 | family fun center | 207 |
fun pic | 329 | adult fun | 203 |
fun sex | 326 | debs fun page | 194 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "fun"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vermaak (amusement, entertainment), plesier (pleasure), genot (pleasure). (various references) | |
Albanian | lojë (game, joke, kiss-in-the-ring, performance, play, toy, trick), kënaqësi (amenity, content, delectation, delight, enjoyment, feast, gladness, gratification, jocundity, kick, pleasure, relish, satisfaction, treat), dëfrim (amusement, dalliance, dissipation, entertainment, gaiety, jinks, ploy), burim argëtimi, argëtim (amusement, cabaret, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertissement, entertainment, jamboree, merriment, merrymaking, pastime, ploy, razzle-dazzle, recreation, relaxation, revel, rollick, sport, sporting, spree, tittup). (various references) | |
Arabic | مزاح (badinage, banter, jest, joke, kidding, lark, playfulness, pleasantries, pleasantry, practical joke, raillery, waggery, wagging, waggish), مزح (banter, banting, chaff, fool, frolic, in play, joke, kid, lark, make fun of, rag, skylark, trifle, waggle), مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, 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), هزل (attenuate, badinage, emaciate, extenuate, humor, humour, joke, languish, peak, pine, pine away, playfulness, pleasantry, reduce, slim, thin), لهو (amusement, distraction, diversion, festivity, lark, pastime, sport). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смешка (joke), развлечение (amusement, avocation, distraction, divertissement, enjoyment, pastime, pleasure, recreation, relaxation, resource, sport), шега (chaff, game, hoax, jape, jest, jig, joke, lark, pleasantry, prank, quiz, raillery, rib, sport, tease, trick, waggery), закачка (chaff, gird, jest, kidding, pleasantry, rib, tease, twit, waggery, yak), забава (entertainment, party, performance, play), приятно прекарано време. (various references) | |
Catalan | diversió (amusement). (various references) | |
Chinese | 乐趣 (Pleasure). (various references) | |
Czech | legrace (lark). (various references) | |
Danish | fornøjelse (pleasure). (various references) | |
Dutch | vermaak (amusement, entertainment, pleasure), amusement (amusement, entertainment). (various references) | |
Esperanto | plezuro (pleasure), amuzo (amusement), amuzado (amusement). (various references) | |
Faeroese | stuttleiki (amusement, pleasure). (various references) | |
Farsi | مفرح , مطبوع (Dainty, Douce, Exquisite, Graceful, Handsome, Lief, Proper, Scrumptious, Sweet, Toothsome), سرگرمی (Avocation, Diversion, Game, Hobby, Hobbyhorse, Pastime, Recreation, Sport, Toy), خوشمزگی (Badinage, Banter, Humor), شوخی کردن (Indulge, Jest, Joke, Josh, Lark, Trick), شوخی امیز (Humorous, Jocose, Jocular), شوخی (Bob, Curvet, Game, Gig, Humor, Jape, Jest, Jink, Jocosity, Joke, Lark, Pleasantry, Prank, Quiz, Sport, Spree, Witticism), بازی (Game, Play, Sport), باصفا. (various references) | |
Finnish | huvi (amusement, entertainment, pleasure). (various references) | |
French | plaisir, plaisanterie, distraction, amusement. (various references) | |
Frisian | fermeits (amusement), nocht (pleasure), nju (pleasure), geniet (pleasure), aardichheid (entertainment, gag, joke, pleasure). (various references) | |
German | spaß (enjoyment, frolic, gag, jest, joke, lark, prank, sport, spree), vergnügen (amuse, amusement, delectableness, delight, enjoyment, entertainment, play, pleasure, pleasures), scherz (frolic, gag, hoax, jest, joke, kidding, leg pull, play, pleasantry, spoof, tomfoolery, yoke), Freude (blitheness, delight, enjoyment, funnies, gladness, glee, gratification, happiness, joice, joy, joyousness, mirth, pleasure). (various references) | |
Greek | κέφι (cheer, conviviality, gusto, joviality, merriment, mirth, mood, verve), διασκέδαση (amusement, diversion, divertissement, enjoyment, entertainment, frolic, jollification, junketing, lark, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, recreation, shindig, sport). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לצון (jesting, mockery, prank, ridicule, scorn), שעשוע (amusement, delight, enjoyment, entertainment, game, pastime, plaything, pleasure, sport), עליזות (cheerfulness, gaiety, joy, lightheartedness, mirth, playfulness), כיף (good time), בדיחות (facetiousness, joy), בדור (amusement, distraction, entertainment, recreation), צחוק (jest, laugh, laughter, merriment, mockery, sport). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tréfa (droll, freak, gag, game, hoax, jape, jeer, jest, jocularity, joke, lark, mischief, monkeyshine, skylarking, sport, spree, story, waggery), szórakozás (amusement, distraction, divertissement, entertainment, fling, high jinks, junket, pastime, picnic, play, pleasure, recreation, refreshing, relaxation, sport), mulatság (amusement, beano, divertissement, gaiety, game, gaudy, jollification, jollity, marry-making, merriment, rejoicings, revel, revelry, rollick, sport), móka (crap, Dido, drollery, game, joke, jollity, pantaloonery, skylark, waggishness), jókedv (animal spirits, cheerfulness, chirpiness, exhilaration, flow of spirits, gaiety, gayness, good humor, good humour, high spirits, hilarity, humor, humour, jollity, joy, let off, merriness, mirth, pleasantry, vivacity), öröm (delight, gladness, gratification, groove, joy, jubilant, jubilation, mirth, pleasure, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengelakari (make fun of), guyonan (object of fun), ejek (make fun of, mock, redicule), ece (kid, make a fool of, make fun of). (various references) | |
Irish | spraoi. (various references) | |
Italian | spasso (amusement, entertainment, frolic, laugh, panic), divertimento (amusement, enjoyment, entertainment, fling, kick, laugh, play, pleasure, recreation, sport). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 楽しい (enjoyable). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たのしい (enjoyable), たわむれ (caprice, flirtation, jest, joke, play, sport), おもしろさ (interest), おもしろみ (interest), ファン (fan), ざきょう (amusement of the company, entertainment), かんきょう (bridge, circumstance, environment, inspiration, interest), いっきょう (amazement, amusement, brief entertainment, surprise). (various references) | |
Korean | 재미. (various references) | |
Luganda | ononyumirwa (you will have fun), kyandinyumye (it would be fun). (various references) | |
Manx | spoyrt (sport, sports), gamman (amusement, game), aittys (amusement, comicality, humour, quaintness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fornøyelse, moro (lark). (various references) | |
Papiamen | prèt (pleasure), delisia (pleasure). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unfay.(various references) | |
Polish | przyjemność (pleasure). (various references) | |
Portuguese | divertimento (amusement, distraction, enjoyment, entertainment, frolic, gambol, game, jollification, merriment, merry-making, pastime, play, recreation, revel, skittle, sport, treat). (various references) | |
Romanian | plåcere (pleasure), haz (frolic, gracefulness, humor, humour, jocularity, salt, spicery, sport, wit), glumã (chaff, farce, frolic, gag, game, jape, jest, joke, lark, play, prank, sport, trick, wheeze, wisecrack, wit, witticism), distracţie (absence-mindedness, amusement, dalliance, distraction, diversion, do, drollery, entertainment, frolic, jest, jocularity, jollity, merriment, merry making, pastime, recreation, revel, skittle, sport, sporting), delectare (amusement, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, feast, pleasure), caraghioslâc (buffoonery, drollery, tomfoolery). (various references) | |
Romansch | sa divertir (to have fun). (various references) | |
Russian | развлечение (amusement, dalliance, distraction, diversion, divertissement, do, entertainment, glorification, merriment, pleasure, recreation, relaxation, sport, treat), шутка забавный, шутка (banter, farce, jape, jest, jocularity, joke, lark, legpull, one-liner, pleasantry, raillery, sport, trick, witticism), веселье (cheer, festivity, gaiety, gladness, glee, hilarity, jamboree, jinks, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, merry-making, mirth, revel, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, sunshine, the bowl, tittup), забава (amusement, panic, sporting), потеха (merry-making). (various references) | |
Scottish | spòrs. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zabava (amusement, distraction, divertissement, entertainment, jamboree, merrymaking, party, ride), provod (junket, pastime), šala (dalliance, dido, farce, have on, jest, joke, lark, pleasantry, rag, rib, sally, trick). (various references) | |
Spanish | diversión (amusement, avocation, diversion, entertainment, play, relaxation, tease), placer (delight, enjoyment, joy, lure, picnic, placer, pleasure, treat, will), divertimento (amusement, divertissement). (various references) | |
Sranan | prisiri (amusing, entertaining, funny, pleasure). (various references) | |
Swedish | kul (cool, funny). (various references) | |
Tagalog | libangan (amusement), kasiyáhang-loób (pleasure), áliwan (amusement). (various references) | |
Thai | สนุกสนาน (gamesome, groove, jolly, joyous, lark, revel), สิ่งบันเทิงใจ, ความสนุกสนานครื้นเครง. (various references) | |
Tswana | monate (nice, taste wonderfully). (various references) | |
Turkish | eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, gag, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розвага (beguilement, disport, distraction, diversion, divertissement, do, entertainment, pastime, play), забава (amusement, sport, sporting, toy), жартувати (badinage, banter, chaff, droll, gag, jape, jest, joke, jolly, lark, lark around, monkey, play, trifle, yak), бавитися (skylark). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trò vui đùa mạnh mẽ, sự vui thích (delight, enchantment), sự vui đùa (lark, mirth, rollick), không một chút nào (nohow, noway, noways, nowise, shot). (various references) | |
Welsh | ysmaldod (badinage, banter, drollery), sbort (game, sport), miri (festivity, merriment), digrifwch (amusement, mirth), difyrrwch (amusement, diversion), cellwair (badinage, banter, jest, joke, trifle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | deliciae, deliciarum, delicias, deliciis, lude, ludum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fun": funambulism, funambulisms, funambulist, funambulists, function, functional, functionalism, functionalisms, functionalist, functionalistic, functionalists, functionalities, functionality, functionally, functionaries, functionary, functioned, functioning, functionless, functions, functor, functors, fund, fundament, fundamental, fundamentalism, fundamentalisms, fundamentalist, fundamentalistic, fundamentalists, fundamentally, fundamentals, fundaments, funded, fundi, fundic, funding, fundraiser, fundraisers, fundraising, fundraisings, funds, fundus, funeral, funerals, funerary, funereal, funereally, funest, funfair, funfairs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fun": antifungal, antifungals, bifunctional, cofunction, cofunctions, defunct, defund, defunded, defunding, defunds, difunctional, disfunction, disfunctional, disfunctions, dysfunction, dysfunctional, dysfunctions, hyperfunction, hyperfunctional, hyperfunctioning, hyperfunctions, infundibula, infundibular, infundibuliform, infundibulum, latifundia, latifundio, latifundios, latifundium, malfunction, malfunctioned, malfunctioning, malfunctions, microfungi, microfungus, microfunguses, misfunction, misfunctioned, misfunctioning, misfunctions, multifunction, multifunctional, nonfunctional, nonfunctioning, nonrefundable, overfund, overfunded, overfunding, overfunds, perfunctorily, perfunctoriness. (additional references) | |
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"Fun" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eun, fann, fanp, fapn, fcu, Fdu, Fehn, fenn, feno, fenv, fewn, fln, flun, Fnuf, fnung, foln, fona, fonc, fong, fonn, fono, Fonu, fonz, foun, founf, Fpu, frn, fruin, frun, fsu, fuc, fue, fuf, fuh, fuhn, fui, fuk, fuln, fum, func, fune, funf, fung, funi, funn, Funna, funo, Funt, funy, fuo, fup, Furn, furni, fux, fuy, fyn, fyu, Mfunjo, nuf, uf, Ufb, ufon, ufu, Ufw, vun. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fun" (pronounced fu"n) |
| 2 | -u" n | begun, bun, Bunn, bunt, done, Donne, dun, gun, Hun, Jun, mun, none, nun, one, outdone, outrun, overdone, pun, redone, rerun, run, shun, son, spun, stun, sun, ton, tonne, Un, undone, won. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-n-u" | |
-1 letter: nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-n-u" | |
+1 letter: faun, fund, funk, funs. | |
+2 letters: fanum, fauna, fauns, flung, flunk, fondu, found, fount, fundi, funds, fungi, fungo, funks, funky, funny, furan, futon, snafu, snuff, unfed, unfit, unfix, unify. | |
+3 letters: canful, defund, engulf, fanums, faunae, faunal, faunas, fecund, feuing, flaunt, fluent, flunks, flunky, fondue, fondus, founds, founts, frenum, fuming, funded, fundic, fundus, funest, fungal, fungic, fungus, funked, funker, funkia, funned, funnel, funner, furane, furans, fusain, fusing, fusion, futons, fuzing, influx, infuse, ingulf, manful, muffin, panful, puffin, refund, runoff, sinful, snafus, snuffs, snuffy, tinful, uncuff, unfair, unfelt, unfits, unfixt, unfold, unfond, unfree, unfurl, unific, unroof, unsafe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Abbreviations 20. Acronyms | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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