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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]
–noun
a female given name.
Also, Joye.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

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.
Joy Home.
(2003-06-13)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

joy

see burst with (joy); pride and joy.

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