REJOICING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rejoicing mean? 

• REJOICING (noun)
  The noun REJOICING has 2 senses:

1. a feeling of great happiness

2. the utterance of sounds expressing great joy

  Familiarity information: REJOICING used as a noun is rare.

• REJOICING (adjective)
  The adjective REJOICING has 1 sense:

1. joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success

  Familiarity information: REJOICING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REJOICING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of great happiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

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

happiness (emotions experienced when in a state of well-being)

Derivation:

rejoice (feel happiness or joy)

rejoice (be ecstatic with joy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The utterance of sounds expressing great joy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

exultation; jubilation; rejoicing

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

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

Derivation:

rejoice (to express great joy)

• REJOICING (adjective)

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)

 Context examples 

Then the wedding was solemnized with young Mr Fox, and there was much rejoicing and dancing; and if they have not left off, they are dancing still.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We satisfied ourselves that with the help of our rope we could find our way down, and then returned, rejoicing, to our camp to make our preparations for the next evening.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)

There was great rejoicing among the yellow Winkies, for they had been made to work hard during many years for the Wicked Witch, who had always treated them with great cruelty.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

What they were to give, neither heard, for both crept into the dark hall, and, sitting on the stairs, held each other close, rejoicing with hearts too full for words.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In a moment they were all out of the chaise, rejoicing at the sight of each other.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"Lady Dalrymple, Lady Dalrymple," was the rejoicing sound; and with all the eagerness compatible with anxious elegance, Sir Walter and his two ladies stepped forward to meet her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Holmes and I walked along the broad, sandy road inhaling the fresh morning air and rejoicing in the music of the birds and the fresh breath of the spring.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part—in which he was officially interested—of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All day long the sound of revelry and of rejoicing from the crowded camp swelled up to the ears of the Englishmen, and they could see the soldiers of the two nations throwing themselves into each other's arms and dancing hand-in-hand round the blazing fires.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)