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merriment

/mer-ee-muhnt, mer-i‐/US // ˈmɛr i mənt, ˈmɛr ɪ‐ //UK // (ˈmɛrɪmənt) //

欢乐,狂欢,欢乐气氛,欢乐活动

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : cheerful or joyful gaiety; mirth; hilarity; laughter.
    • : Obsolete. a cause of mirth; a jest, entertainment, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounamusement
Forms: merriments
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Examples

  • One Christmas, after a night of merriment, Gawain confronts a mysterious, magical knight, and that encounter sets him on an epic quest to face his fate.

  • He was filled with life and compassion and merriment, and the pleasure of his company was unequalled.

  • Finding joy and merriment where one can is one of 2020’s great lessons.

  • Last holiday season, an estimated 7 million people visited New York City, the epicenter of merriment.

  • Even in the midst of all the merriment, however, were reminders of the ongoing tensions within conservatism.

  • While the mass populous is being pumped with merriment to the point of nausea a single Misfit can be seen in the distance.

  • After one such night of merriment, I woke up at a station completely unfamiliar to me.

  • But there came a day, at last, when the inhabitants of Flatland were far indeed removed from the spirit of merriment.

  • The light Italian looked what he assumed; a brisk, active muleteer, full of life and merriment.

  • Lettice laughed with him then, though her laughter held another note that was not merriment.

  • Page after page—full of caustic satire, humorous sally and profound epigram—fairly bristles with merriment.

  • What a capital talker he was at the social board, and how ready to join in harmless merriment!