Laughter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of laughing.
  • n. The sound produced by laughing.
  • n. Archaic A cause or subject for laughter.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
  • n. A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
  • n. A reason for merriment
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See laugh, v. i.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A mode of expressing mirth, consisting chiefly in certain convulsive and partly involuntary actions of the muscles of respiration, by means of which, after an inspiration, the expulsion of the air from the chest in a series of jerks produces a succession of short abrupt sounds, accompanied by certain movements of the muscles of the face, and often of other parts of the body, and, when excessive, by tears: also sometimes applied to any expression of merriment perceivable in the countenance.
  • n. A laugh.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the sound of laughing
  • n. the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn
  • Antonym
    weeping    crying    lamentation   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    activity   
    Variant
    laugh   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    after    drafter    hereafter    rafter    thereafter   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    laugh    mirth    amusement    joy    anger    shout    cheer    chuckle    noise    admiration