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joy

  [joi]
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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 gaudēre to be glad) + -ium -ium

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

Antonyms:
1. misery, unhappiness, sorrow, grief.
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joy   (joi)   
n.  
    1. Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness.
    2. The expression or manifestation of such feeling.
  2. 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
  1. To fill with ecstatic happiness, pleasure, or satisfaction.
  2. 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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