jubilant

  • 111jubilation — noun 1. a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event • Syn: ↑celebration • Derivationally related forms: ↑jubilate, ↑celebrate (for: ↑celebration) • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 112ju´bi|lant|ly — ju|bi|lant «JOO buh luhnt», adjective. expressing or showing joy; rejoicing; exulting: »People were jubilant when the war was over. Great organs surged through arches dim Their jubilant floods in praise of him (James Russell Lowell). SYNONYM(S):… …

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  • 113ju|bi|lant — «JOO buh luhnt», adjective. expressing or showing joy; rejoicing; exulting: »People were jubilant when the war was over. Great organs surged through arches dim Their jubilant floods in praise of him (James Russell Lowell). SYNONYM(S): joyful,… …

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  • 114Jubilantly — Ju bi*lant*ly, adv. In a jubilant manner. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 115Spin — Spin, v. i. 1. To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness. [1913 Webster] They neither know to spin, nor care to …

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  • 116weaver — Whirligig Whirl i*gig, n. [Whirl + gig.] [1913 Webster] 1. A child s toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. Johnson. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about,… …

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  • 117Whirligig — Whirl i*gig, n. [Whirl + gig.] [1913 Webster] 1. A child s toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. Johnson. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame… …

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  • 118whirlwig — Whirligig Whirl i*gig, n. [Whirl + gig.] [1913 Webster] 1. A child s toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. Johnson. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about,… …

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  • 119whirlwig beetle — Whirligig Whirl i*gig, n. [Whirl + gig.] [1913 Webster] 1. A child s toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. Johnson. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about,… …

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  • 120adrenaline — noun Date: 1901 epinephrine often used in nontechnical contexts < the fans were jubilant, raucous, their adrenaline running high W. P. Kinsella > …

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