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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.

Joy

  [joi]
–noun
a female given name.
Also, Joye.
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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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Joy

Joy\, n. [OE. joye, OF. joye, joie, goie, F. joie, L. gaudia, pl. of gaudium joy, fr. gaudere to rejoice, to be glad; cf. Gr. ? to rejoice, ? proud. Cf. Gaud, Jewel.]

1. The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.

Her heavenly form beheld, all wished her joy. --Dryden.

Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. --Johnson.

Who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame. --Heb. xii. 2.

Tears of true joy for his return. --Shak.

Joy is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good. --Locke.

2. That which causes joy or happiness.

For ye are our glory and joy. --1 Thess. ii. 20.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. --Keats.

3. The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.

Such joy made Una, when her knight she found. --Spenser.

The roofs with joy resound. --Dryden.

Note: Joy is used in composition, esp. with participles, to from many self-explaining compounds; as, joy-hells, joy-ringing, joy-inspiring, joy-resounding, etc.

Syn: Gladness; pleasure; delight; happiness; exultation; transport; felicity; ecstasy; rapture; bliss; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity; hilarity.

Joy

Joy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Joyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Joying.] [OF. joir, F. jouir. See Joy, n.] To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.

I will joy in the God of my salvation. --Hab. iii. 18.

In whose sight all things joy. --Milton.

Joy

Joy\, v. t. 1. To give joy to; to congratulate. [Obs.] "Joy us of our conquest." --Dryden.

To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe. --Prior.

2. To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate. [Obs.]

Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits. --Shak.

3. To enjoy. [Obs.] See Enjoy.

Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss. --Milton.
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Language Translation for : joy
Spanish: alegría, júbilo,
German: die Freude,
Japanese: 喜び
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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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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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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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