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REJOICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rejoice mean?
• REJOICE (verb)
The verb REJOICE has 3 senses:
1. feel happiness or joy
2. to express great joy
3. be ecstatic with joy
Familiarity information: REJOICE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it rejoices Past simple: rejoiced
Past participle: rejoiced
-ing form: rejoicing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feel happiness or joy
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
joy; rejoice
Hypernyms (to "rejoice" is one way to...):
experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rejoice"):
cheer; cheer up; chirk up (become cheerful)
gladden (become glad or happy)
be on cloud nine; exult; jump for joy; walk on air (feel extreme happiness or elation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
rejoicing (a feeling of great happiness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
To express great joy
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
exuberate; exult; jubilate; rejoice; triumph
Context example:
Who cannot exult in Spring?
Hypernyms (to "rejoice" is one way to...):
cheer; cheer up; chirk up (become cheerful)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rejoice"):
glory (rejoice proudly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue rejoice over the results of the experiment
Derivation:
rejoicing (the utterance of sounds expressing great joy)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Be ecstatic with joy
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "rejoice" is one way to...):
be on cloud nine; exult; jump for joy; walk on air (feel extreme happiness or elation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something PP
Derivation:
rejoicing (a feeling of great happiness)
Context examples
How they might be benefited, how they must rejoice in such an establishment for you, is nothing to you.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I am so rejoiced to see you, Trotwood!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I rejoice to say that the young man whom, of all others, I particularly abhor, has left Bath.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
However, I rejoice to say that I have a hated rival, who will certainly cut me out the instant that my back is turned.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet she soon began to rejoice that she had heard them.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
To know that she thought his coming certain was enough to make Emma consider it so, and sincerely did she rejoice in their joy.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Every thing was explained to him by Mrs. Dashwood, and he found fresh reason to rejoice in what he had done for Mr. Ferrars, since eventually it promoted the interest of Elinor.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
How they did rejoice and embrace each other, and dance about and kiss each other!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
And then this money came only to me: not to me and a rejoicing family, but to my isolated self.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The town seemed as dead, for not a soul did I see; I rejoiced that it was so, for I wanted no witness of poor Lucy's condition.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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