rejoice
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rejoice
- /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪs/
Rhymes with -ɔɪs
Where it comes from
From Middle English rejoicen, rejoisen, from Old French resjoir. Doublet of rejoy. Compare French réjouir; Spanish regocijar; Portuguese regozijar; Italian gioire
verb rejoices · rejoicing · rejoiced · rejoyce
- To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy. Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye ; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs to be delightful and rejoicing.
- To have (someone) as a lover or spouse; to enjoy sexually. ye that are a knyghte wyueles that ye wyl not loue some mayden or gentylwoman /[…]/ but hit is noysed that ye loue quene Gueneuer / and that she hath ordeyned by enchauntement that ye shal neuer loue none other / but her / ne none other damoysel ne lady shall reioyse you
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To make happy, exhilarate.
Were he [Cain] alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made.
Similar: elate, happify, beatify, enrapture, begladden, blissen, bright, cheer, fetch, cheer up, cherish, content
- To enjoy. c. 1449–1455, Reginald Peacock, Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie his brother Constans next aftir him rejoiced the same west-parti.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: jubilate, exult, joy, revel, triumph, wallow, delighted, enjoy, hurrah, glad, huzzah, happy, congratulate, complacency, celebrate, applaud
Translations
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verb to be happy
| Español | alegrarse, regocijarse |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 기뻐하다 gippeohada |
| 日本語 | 快く kokoroyoku, 嬉しがる ureshigaru, 嬉しい ureshii, 喜ぶ yorokobu |
| 中文 | 開心 /开心 kāixīn, 高興 /高兴 gāoxìng |
| Kiswahili | kushangilia |
| Português | exultar, regozijar-se |
| Français | se réjouir |
| Deutsch | sich freuen |
| Ελληνικά | αγάλλομαι agállomai |
| Русский | ра́доваться rádovatʹsja, ликова́ть likovátʹ |
| العربية | فَرِحَ بِـ fariḥa bi- |
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title = {rejoice},
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