JUBILATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jubilation mean? 

• JUBILATION (noun)
  The noun JUBILATION has 3 senses:

1. a feeling of extreme joy

2. a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event

3. the utterance of sounds expressing great joy

  Familiarity information: JUBILATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUBILATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of extreme joy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

exultation; jubilance; jubilancy; jubilation

Hypernyms ("jubilation" is a kind of...):

joy; joyfulness; joyousness (the emotion of great happiness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jubilation"):

triumph (the exultation of victory)

Derivation:

jubilate (to express great joy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

celebration; jubilation

Hypernyms ("jubilation" is a kind of...):

affair; function; occasion; social function; social occasion (a vaguely specified social event)

Derivation:

jubilate (celebrate a jubilee)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The utterance of sounds expressing great joy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

exultation; jubilation; rejoicing

Hypernyms ("jubilation" is a kind of...):

utterance; vocalization (the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication)

Derivation:

jubilate (to express great joy)

 Context examples 

By the time Amy came in, Jo was able to take her part in the family jubilation, not quite as heartily as usual, perhaps, but without repinings at Amy's good fortune.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)