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JUBILANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jubilant mean?
• JUBILANT (adjective)
The adjective JUBILANT has 2 senses:
1. joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
2. full of high-spirited delight
Familiarity information: JUBILANT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
Synonyms:
exultant; exulting; jubilant; prideful; rejoicing; triumphal; triumphant
Context example:
a triumphant shout
Similar:
elated (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits)
Derivation:
jubilance; jubilancy (a feeling of extreme joy)
jubilate (to express great joy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Full of high-spirited delight
Synonyms:
elated; gleeful; joyful; jubilant
Context example:
a joyful heart
Similar:
joyous (full of or characterized by joy)
Derivation:
jubilance; jubilancy (a feeling of extreme joy)
jubilate (to express great joy)
Context examples
The Professor smiled, and looked quite jubilant.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The backers of Cherokee waxed jubilant and offered ridiculous odds.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He was the only man who was not out of his bunk, and he was jubilant in that he possessed no bruises to advertise that he had had a hand in the night’s work.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Matthewson waxed jubilant.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"We must have our sing, in the good old way, for we are all together again once more," said Jo, feeling that a good shout would be a safe and pleasant vent for the jubilant emotions of her soul.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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