rejoice
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rejoicen, rejoisen, from Old French resjoir. Doublet of rejoy. Compare French réjouir; Spanish regocijar; Portuguese regozijar; Italian gioire
Inflected forms:
form: rejoices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rejoicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rejoiced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rejoiced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rejoyce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye ; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs to be delightful and rejoicing.
At Waterhouses and Hulme End the usual booking office, waiting room and other station accommodation were to be found, but the remaining stations […] were mere stopping places, some of which rejoiced in a small shed for waiting passengers, others without any kind of shelter whatsoever.
Leicester closed out the win to spark emotional scenes as those inside Wembley rejoiced in a landmark victory.
gloss: To have (someone) as a lover or spouse; to enjoy sexually.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: ye that are a knyghte wyueles that ye wyl not loue some mayden or gentylwoman /[…]/ but hit is noysed that ye loue quene Gueneuer / and that she hath ordeyned by enchauntement that ye shal neuer loue none other / but her / ne none other damoysel ne lady shall reioyse you
gloss: To make happy, exhilarate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Were he [Cain] alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made.
But good news awaited them in the form of permission to travel about the area replenishing medical stocks in hospitals and clinics, and this task was delegated to Constance, as the newcomer, a fact which rejoiced her.
gloss: To enjoy.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: c. 1449–1455, Reginald Peacock, Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie
his brother Constans next aftir him rejoiced the same west-parti.
Derived words: rejoiceful
rejoiceless
rejoicement
rejoicer
rejoicingly
unrejoiced
unrejoicing
Translations:
lang: Ao
word: pela (Chungli)
lang: Arabic
word: فَرِحَ بِـ
roman: fariḥa bi-
lang: Armenian
word: հրճվել
roman: hrčvel
lang: Azerbaijani
word: sevinmək
lang: Bashkir
word: һөйөнөү
roman: höyönöw
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡыуаныу
roman: qıwanıw
lang: Belarusian
word: ра́давацца
roman: rádavacca
lang: Belarusian
word: це́шыцца
roman: cjéšycca
lang: Bulgarian
word: ра́двам се
roman: rádvam se
lang: Bulgarian
word: веселя́ се
roman: veseljá se
lang: Bulgarian
word: ликува́м
roman: likuvám
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 開心 /开心
roman: kāixīn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 高興 /高兴
roman: gāoxìng
lang: Maore Comorian
word: ufurahi
lang: Czech
word: radovat se
lang: Czech
word: těšit se
lang: Danish
word: juble
lang: Dutch
word: jubelen
lang: Dutch
word: zich verheugen
lang: Esperanto
word: ĝoji
lang: Finnish
word: iloita
lang: Finnish
word: riemuita
lang: French
word: se réjouir
lang: Friulian
word: gjondâ
lang: German
word: sich freuen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍆𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽
roman: faginōn
lang: Greek
word: αγάλλομαι
roman: agállomai
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀγάλλομαι
roman: agállomai
lang: Ancient Greek
word: γηθέω
roman: gēthéō
lang: Haitian Creole
word: rejwi
lang: Hungarian
word: örvendezik
lang: Hungarian
word: örvend
lang: Icelandic
word: fagna
lang: Icelandic
word: gleðjast
lang: Ido
word: joyar
lang: Interlingua
word: gauder
lang: Japanese
word: 快く
roman: kokoroyoku
lang: Japanese
word: 嬉しがる
roman: ureshigaru
lang: Japanese
word: 嬉しい
roman: ureshii
lang: Japanese
word: 喜ぶ
roman: yorokobu
lang: Karakhanid
word: سَڤُنْماكْ
roman: sevünmēk
lang: Korean
word: 기뻐하다
roman: gippeohada
lang: Latin
word: gaudeō
lang: Latin
word: laetor
lang: Latin
word: laetīscō
lang: Macedonian
word: се радува
roman: se raduva
lang: Māori
word: komai
lang: Māori
word: koa
lang: Māori
word: hari
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fryde seg
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: være glad
lang: Old English
word: āhliehhan
lang: Old Tupi
word: oryb
lang: Old Tupi
word: ory
lang: Old Turkic
word: 𐰾𐰋𐰤
roman: sebin-
lang: Old Uyghur
word: sʾβynmʾk (sevinmek)
lang: Polish
word: radować się
lang: Polish
word: cieszyć się
lang: Portuguese
word: exultar
lang: Portuguese
word: regozijar-se
lang: Russian
word: ра́доваться
roman: rádovatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: ликова́ть
roman: likovátʹ
lang: Sanskrit
word: ऊर्जयते
roman: ūrjayate
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: радовати се
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: веселити се
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ликовати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: radovati se
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: veseliti se
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: likovati
lang: Slovak
word: radovať sa
lang: Slovak
word: tešiť sa
lang: Slovene
word: veseliti se
lang: Spanish
word: alegrarse
lang: Spanish
word: regocijarse
lang: Swahili
word: kushangilia
lang: Swedish
word: glädjas
lang: Swedish
word: fröjda sig
lang: Tagalog
word: magalak
lang: Tagalog
word: magbunyi
lang: Tamil
word: மகிழ்
roman: makiḻ
lang: Tocharian B
word: kātk-
lang: Tocharian B
word: plānt-
lang: Turkish
word: sevinmek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: سونمك
roman: sevinmek
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎌𐎎𐎃
roman: šmḫ
lang: Ukrainian
word: раді́ти
roman: radíty
lang: Ukrainian
word: ра́дуватися
roman: ráduvatysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: ті́шитися
roman: tíšytysja
lang: Yiddish
word: זיך משׂמח זײַן
roman: zikh mesameyekh zayn
lang: Yiddish
word: זיך פֿרייען
roman: zikh freyen