mirth
Collocations
4ADJ.
contagious, old, silent, superior, wholesome
VERB + MIRTH
feigned, like, seemed
MIRTH + NOUN
audience, elves, fate, laughter, sermons, wood
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
The emotion usually following humor and accompanied by laughter.
But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.
That which causes merriment.
Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
WiktionaryAnd he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.
WiktionaryShe was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phen
WiktionaryLet us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after.
Tatoeba · #411098Tinkles of sleigh bells and distant laughter, that seemed like the mirth of wood elves, came from every quarter.
Tatoeba · #5831730Their mirth made the old vault ring again.
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