JOYOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does joyously mean? 

• JOYOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb JOYOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a joyous and gleeful manner

  Familiarity information: JOYOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOYOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a joyous and gleeful manner

Synonyms:

gleefully; joyfully; joyously

Context example:

the old man had greeted her gleefully

Pertainym:

joyous (full of or characterized by joy)

 Context examples 

But Red-Cap went joyously home, and no one ever did anything to harm her again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

If you have children, it’s a time to joyously be together and to surprise them (perhaps with an outing) and play with them more than usual.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Then you'll come!" she cried joyously.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An instant afterwards Zambo rose, looked at the prostrate man, and then, waving his hand joyously to us, came running in our direction.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He bounded towards her joyously, and she met him with shrewd fangs that laid his cheek open to the bone.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“No, fair sir,” cried the bowman joyously.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was too completely overpowered to be immediately able to reply: and two moments of silence being ample encouragement for Mr. Elton's sanguine state of mind, he tried to take her hand again, as he joyously exclaimed—Charming Miss Woodhouse! allow me to interpret this interesting silence.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There is no malign there, see, and so it make hard that I must kill her in her sleep." This turned my blood cold, and it began to dawn upon me that I was accepting Van Helsing's theories; but if she were really dead, what was there of terror in the idea of killing her? He looked up at me, and evidently saw the change in my face, for he said almost joyously:—Ah, you believe now?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Hardly had he formed the wish than the marshal began, and said: “Your majesty, we live joyously here, but how is the queen living in the tower? Is she still alive, or has she died?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)