Synonyms

1. gaiety

Sentence Examples

1. Nobles celebrated with drink, dance, and merriment well into the night.
2. Even Emma grew tired at last of flattery and merriment, and wished herself rather walking quietly about with any of the others, or sitting almost alone, and quite unattended to, in tranquil observation of the beautiful views beneath her.
3. A year ago, she would have led them on in this merriment, being the first to boast their victory in battle.
4. His merriment was contagious and we laughed in waving fits.
5. The tradition was for dancing and merriment from late in the evening on the last day of Twelfth-month right into the morning of First-day of the new year.
6. The muted laughter carried over the village, filling everyone with a merriment that matched their warmth.
7. Those in the tavern howled with merriment again, and the landlord, who had cheated the assistant to the limit, grinned as he went about his business.
8. Song and merriment accompanied endless bouts of laughter that failed to move her.
9. But, without any apparent reason, it was withdrawn, and its owner indulged in another long, though still silent, fit of merriment.
10. Alice made no very powerful effort to control her merriment and even the dark, thoughtful eye of Cora lighted with a humor that it would seem, the habit, rather than the nature, of its mistress repressed.