| 单词 | rejoicing |
| 释义 | rejoicing (once / 567 pages) nadj Rejoicing is celebration or festivity. There will be great rejoicing when your favorite cousin comes home after his three years away in the Peace Corps. You can use the word rejoicing as a noun, to mean jubilation and joy, or as an adjective to mean "joyful." A rejoicing crowd is full of happiness and cheer, and a rejoicing child might jump up and down with excitement. Rejoicing comes from the verb rejoice, which is rooted in the Old French word rejoir, a combination of the intensive re and joir, "be glad." WORD FAMILYrejoicing: rejoicingly, rejoicings+/rejoice: rejoiced, rejoices, rejoicing USAGE EXAMPLESThe same will be laid on this year, but Amparo is scathing of what she sees as cosmetic rejoicing. The Guardian(Dec 21, 2016) The day after the election, Biddy Martin, president of Amherst College in Massachusetts, called for tolerance and acknowledged that some people might be rejoicing. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) “Today, about 1,000 Carrier workers and their families should be rejoicing,” Sanders wrote on Thursday in an op-ed for The Washington Post. Salon(Dec 01, 2016) 1n a feeling of great happiness Hyper happiness emotions experienced when in a state of well-being 2n the utterance of sounds expressing great joy Syn|Hyper exultation, jubilation utterance, vocalization the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication 3adj joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day Syn exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, triumphal, triumphant elated exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits |
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