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laughter::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | laugh |
| Type of | vocalization, utterance |
| Has types | cackle, chortle, chuckle, giggle, guffaw, ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw, horselaugh, snicker, snigger, snort, titter, belly laugh, cachinnation |
laughter::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | activity |
he enjoyed the laughter of the crowd.
Examples of laughter
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Behind the laughter was the sense that Coren's fury is more than just a posture.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Because of you I vacillate between howls of laughter and a deep deep depression.
From the guardian.co.uk
Poppy, left, and Tom share a moment of laughter and friendship in the South End.
From the timesunion.com
Davis waited for the laughter to subside, then brought home the real punch line.
From the newsobserver.com
Several people stopped, while others drove by, trying to contain their laughter.
From the washingtonpost.com
Hear the one about the doctor who prescribed daily laughter instead of medicine?
From the news.enquirer.com
The chamber reacted with silence and nervous laughter, then Bush began to laugh.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
It also helps that 2-year-old Kimberly brightens the home with joy and laughter.
From the thenewstribune.com
If he had, the invoice would have been greeted with laughter, as Escalante knew.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Laugh: the sound of laughing
- The activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn; "he enjoyed the laughter of the crowd"
- Laughter is an audible expression of happiness, or an inward feeling of joy. It may ensue from jokes, tickling or other stimuli. It is in most cases a very pleasant sensation.
- Laughter is an album by Ian Dury & The Blockheads; released in 1980, it was the last studio album Dury made for Stiff Records. It was also the last studio album he made with The Blockheads, until 1998's Mr. Love Pants, though a live album Warts 'n' Audience was produced in 1991.
- Laughter is the title of a collection of three essays written by French philosopher Henri Bergson, first published in 1900. It was written in French, the original title is Le Rire. Essai sur la signification du comique ("Laughter, an essay on the meaning of the comic").
- Laughter is a 1930 film directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast and starring Fredric March, Nancy Carroll and Frank Morgan.
- The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound; A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and ...
- Defined by Henri Bergson as our sense of 'somethinh mechanical encrusted in the living' (84). See also Jokes.
- (1) the hickup of the fool. (2) maliciousness with a good conscience.
