elation

/ɪˈleɪʃən/

noun 3

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

great, sheer | unbelievable | mild | curious

VERB + ELATION

experience, feel | show

PREP

~ at

The team's elation at winning the championship was impossible to hide.

PHRASES

a feeling/mood/sense/surge of elation

When she heard she got the job, a wave of elation swept over her.

tears of elation

Definitions

noun

An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.

A feeling of joy and pride.

She [Chloe Kelly] waited for confirmation of the goal before taking off her shirt and waving it around her head, while being lifted by her team-mates in a moment of pure elation.

A collineation that fixes all points on a line (called its axis) and all lines though a point on the axis (called its center).

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a feeling of joy and pride

lightness

Antonyms

depression

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

She [Chloe Kelly] waited for confirmation of the goal before taking off her shirt and waving it around her head, while being lifted by her team-mates in a moment of pure elation.

Wiktionary

You could see the elation in the president's face when he announced that our shares are going to be listed on the First Section of the TSE next year.

Tatoeba · #73514

The elation at having successfully escaped was short-lived: Tom woke up in the beam of a policeman's torch.

Tatoeba · #6546940

Yanni doesn't share Skura's elation.

Tatoeba · #9733541

Elation gave way to horror.

Tatoeba · #10458999

Elation and despair ebbed and flowed in her.

Tatoeba · #11307573

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