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joy
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: joi, IPA(key): /d???/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English joye, borrowed from Old French joie, from Late Latin gaudia, neuter plural (mistaken as feminine singular) of Latin gaudium (“joy”), from gaud?re (“to be glad, rejoice”). Doublet of jo. Displaced native Middle English wunne (from Old English wynn), Middle English hight, hught (“joy, hope”) (from Old English hyht), Middle English rot, root (“joy, delight”) (from Old English r?t), while partially replacing Middle English blisse (“joy, bliss”) (from Old English blisse, bl?þs). Middle English gleo (“joy, glee”) (from Old English gl?ow, gl?w (“glee”)) was at first displaced but later resurrected as English glee.
Noun
joy (countable and uncountable, plural joys)
- A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
- Anything that causes such a feeling.
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
- Luck or success; a positive outcome.
- 2012, Colin Owen, Colin's Shorts (volume 2, page 65)
- Grant had no joy with taking a nap, so he began to systematically feel if everything was working: fingers and toes, etc.
- 2012, Robert Stansbridge, Bia's Wedding (page 4)
- 'Rob? It's Gary. Are you having any joy with this trip to Bali?' 'No joy at all, mate. I reckon Bali's out for the foreseeable future. […]
- 2012, Colin Owen, Colin's Shorts (volume 2, page 65)
- (obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
Antonyms
- (feeling of happiness): infelicity, joylessness, unhappiness, unjoy
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English joyen, jo?en, joien, from Old French jöir, from the noun (see above).
Verb
joy (third-person singular simple present joys, present participle joying, simple past and past participle joyed)
- (intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice.
- 1829, Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein, Edinburgh: Cadell, Volume 3, Chapter 8, p. 222,[2]
- I joy to see you wear around your neck the holy relic I bestowed on you;—but what Moorish charmlet is that you wear beside it?
- 1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 18, “Tale of the Portress,” p. 178,[3]
- I swore readily enough to this and he joyed with exceeding joy and embraced me round the neck while love for him possessed my whole heart.
- 1829, Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein, Edinburgh: Cadell, Volume 3, Chapter 8, p. 222,[2]
- (transitive, archaic) To enjoy.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[4]
- I haue my wish, in that I ioy thy sight,
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto I, p. 5,[5]
- For from the time that Scudamour her bought,
- In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day […] .
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9, lines 1164-1168,[6]
- Is this the Love, is this the recompence
- Of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve, exprest
- Immutable when thou wert lost, not I,
- Who might have liv’d and joyd immortal bliss,
- Yet willingly chose rather Death with thee:
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[4]
- (transitive, obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 405,[7]
- Evil like Us they shun, and covet Good;
- Abhor the Poison, and receive the Food.
- Like Us they love or hate: like Us they know,
- To joy the Friend, or grapple with the Foe.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 405,[7]
- (transitive, obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act I, Scene 2,[8]
- Yet neither pleasure’s art can joy my spirits,
- Nor yet the other’s distance comfort me.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act I, Scene 2,[8]
Uzbek
Etymology
From Persian ???? (jây).
Noun
joy (plural joylar)
- place
Derived terms
- joylashmoq
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relief
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???li?f/
- Rhymes: -i?f
Etymology 1
From Old French relief (“assistance”), from Old French relever (“to relieve”), from Latin relevare (“to raise up, make light”). See also relieve.
Noun
relief (countable and uncountable, plural reliefs)
- The removal of stress or discomfort.
- The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
- Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another.
- The person who takes over a shift for another.
- Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
- (law) Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
- A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief.
- A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor.
Synonyms
- (removal of stress and discomfort): ease, alleviation, liss, respite
- (feeling of removal of stress and discomfort): ease, alleviation, liss
- (person who takes over a shift): stand-in, substitute, backup, fill-in
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Italian rilevare (“to raise”), from Latin relevare (“to raise”).
Noun
relief (countable and uncountable, plural reliefs)
- A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
- The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color.
- The difference of elevations on a surface.
- the relief on that part of the Earth's surface
- (heraldry) The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides.
Synonyms
- (type of artwork): embossing
- (difference of elevations on a surface): texture, topography
Derived terms
- relief map
Translations
Adjective
relief (comparative more relief, superlative most relief)
- (of a surface) Characterized by surface inequalities.
- Of or used in letterpress.
Anagrams
- Leifer, e-filer, liefer, refile, relfie, relife
French
Etymology
Old French, from relever.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.lj?f/
Noun
relief m (plural reliefs)
- projection, relief
- (geography, mineralogy) relief, surface elevation
- (figuratively) contrast, definition, offset (against something else)
- (sculpture) relief
Derived terms
- bas-relief
Further reading
- “relief” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Polish
Etymology
From French relief, from Old French relief (“assistance”), from relever (“to relieve”), from Latin relevare (“to raise up, make light”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?l.j?f/
Noun
relief m inan
- relief
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
From French relief.
Noun
relief n (plural reliefuri)
- relief (difference of elevations on the Earth's surface)
Related terms
- reliefa
- reliefare
- reliefat
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