Gaiety
//ˈɡeɪ.ə.ti// noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state of being happy or merry. dated, uncountable
"There was much gaiety at the ball."
- 2 a festive merry feeling wordnet
- 3 Merrymaking or festivity. countable, dated
"And he would tell her all sorts of wonders, old-world gaieties, long before she was born; and how finely the great Mr. [George Frideric] Handel played upon the harpischord^([sic]) in the Music Hall, and how his talk was in German, Latin, French, English, Italian, and half-a-dozen languages beside, […]"
- 4 a gay feeling wordnet
Example
More examples"Health and gaiety foster beauty."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French gaieté, from gai. By surface analysis, gay + -ety.
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