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–noun

1.	the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation: She felt the joy of seeing her son's success.

2.	a source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something or someone greatly valued or appreciated: Her prose style is a pure joy.

3.	the expression or display of glad feeling; festive gaiety.

4.	a state of happiness or felicity.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to feel joy; be glad; rejoice.

–verb (used with object)

6.	Obsolete. to gladden.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME joy(e) < OF joie, joye < LL gaudia, neut. pl. (taken as fem. sing.) of L gaudium joy, equiv. to gaud- (base of gaudére to be glad) + -ium -ium

]

—Synonyms 1. rapture. 4. bliss. See pleasure.

—Antonyms 1. misery, unhappiness, sorrow, grief.

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–noun

a female given name.

Also, Joye.

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n.

1. Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness.
2. The expression or manifestation of such feeling.
A source or an object of pleasure or satisfaction: their only child, their pride and joy.

v.   joyed, joy·ing, joys

v.   intr.
To take great pleasure; rejoice.

v.   tr. Archaic

To fill with ecstatic happiness, pleasure, or satisfaction.
To enjoy.

[Middle English joie, from Old French, from Latin gaudia, pl. of gaudium, joy, from gaudēre, to rejoice; see gāu- in Indo-European roots.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
joy

c.1225, "feeling of pleasure and delight," from O.Fr. joie, from L. gaudia, pl. of gaudium "joy," from gaudere "rejoice," from PIE base *gau- (cf. Gk. gaio "I rejoice," M.Ir. guaire "noble"). Joy-riding is Amer.Eng., 1908; joy stick is 1910, aviators' slang for the control lever of an airplane.

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joy
noun
1.	the emotion of great happiness [ant: sorrow]
2.	something or someone that provides a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"
verb
1.	feel happiness or joy [syn: rejoice]
2.	make glad or happy [syn: gladden] [ant: sadden]

American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This

joy

see burst with (joy); pride and joy.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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joy1 [dʒoi] noun

great happiness
Example: The children jumped for joy when they saw the new toys.

Arabic:	فَرَح شديد
Chinese (Simplified):	欢乐
Chinese (Traditional):	歡樂
Czech:	radost
Danish:	glæde
Dutch:	blijdschap
Estonian:	rõõm
Finnish:	ilo
French:	joie
German:	die Freude
Greek:	μεγάλη χαρά, ευτυχία
Hungarian:	vidámság
Icelandic:	ánægja
Indonesian:	kegembiraan
Italian:	gioia

Japanese:	喜び
Korean:	기쁨
Latvian:	prieks
Lithuanian:	džiaugsmas
Norwegian:	glede, lykke
Polish:	uciecha, radość
Portuguese (Brazil):	alegria
Portuguese (Portugal):	alegria
Romanian:	bucurie
Russian:	радость
Slovak:	radosť
Slovenian:	radost
Spanish:	alegría, júbilo
Swedish:	glädje
Turkish:	sevinç, neşe

joy2 [dʒoi] noun

a cause of great happiness
Example: Our son is a great joy to us.

Arabic:	مَصْدَر الفَرَح
Chinese (Simplified):	高兴
Chinese (Traditional):	高興
Czech:	radost
Danish:	glæde
Dutch:	bron van vreugde
Estonian:	rõõm
Finnish:	ilon aihe
French:	joie
German:	die Freude
Greek:	πηγή χαράς
Hungarian:	öröm
Icelandic:	gleðiefni
Indonesian:	kebahagiaan
Italian:	gioia

Japanese:	喜のもと
Korean:	기쁘게 해주는 것
Latvian:	prieks
Lithuanian:	džiaugsmas
Norwegian:	glede, fryd
Polish:	radość
Portuguese (Brazil):	alegria
Portuguese (Portugal):	alegria
Romanian:	bucurie
Russian:	радость
Slovak:	radosť
Slovenian:	radost
Spanish:	deleite
Swedish:	glädjekälla, -ämne
Turkish:	neşe kaynağı

See also: joyful, joyous

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Joy language
A functional programming language by Manfred von Thun. Joy is unusual because it is not based on lambda calculus, but on the composition of functions. Functions take a stack as argument, consume any number of parameters from it, and return it with any number of results on it. The concatenation of programs denotes the composition of functions. One of the datatypes of Joy is that of quoted programs, of which lists are a special case.
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Joy, IL (village, FIPS 38739) Location: 41.19687 N, 90.87956 W
Population (1990): 452 (210 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 61260

Mount Joy, PA (borough, FIPS 51656) Location: 40.11045 N, 76.50786 W
Population (1990): 6398 (2628 housing units)
Area: 6.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Joy

En*joy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enjoyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enjoying.] [OF. enjoier to receive with joy; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. & F. joie joy: cf. OF. enjoir to enjoy. See Joy.]

1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation.

2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty.

That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. --Num. xxxvi. 8.

To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. --Heb. xi. 25.

3. To have sexual intercourse with. --Milton.

To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure; to be happy.

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Joy

Gaud\, n. [OE. gaude jest, trick, gaudi bead of a rosary, fr. L. gaudium joy, gladness. See Joy.]

1. Trick; jest; sport. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

2. Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

3. An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." --Shak.

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Joy

Jew"el\, n. [OE. juel, jowel, OF. jouel, juel, joiel, F. joyau, dim. of OF. joie joy, jewel, F. joie joy. See Joy.]

1. An ornament of dress usually made of a precious metal, and having enamel or precious stones as a part of its design.

Plate of rare device, and jewels Of rich and exquisite form. --Shak.

2. A precious stone; a gem. --Shak.

3. An object regarded with special affection; a precious thing. "Our prince (jewel of children)." --Shak.

4. A bearing for a pivot a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone, as a ruby.

Jewel block (Naut.), block at the extremity of a yard, through which the halyard of a studding sail is rove.

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