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exult

/ɪɡˈzʌlt/

exult verb: to rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).

Verb

exult (third-person singular simple present exults, present participle exulting, simple past and past participle exulted)

  1. (intransitive) To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).
    • I took a deep breath; a locomotive howled across-the darkness, Mobile-bound. So were we. I took off my shirt and exulted.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC

exult meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

exult in Tamil

to exult, rejoice, glow with delight, enjoy
களி kaḷi

exult in Urdu

پھولا نہ سمانا

exult in Bengali

চরম আনন্দিত হওয়া, উল্লাস করা

exult in Telugu

rejoice
మురియు muriyu
More languagesFewer languages
exult in Malayalam
സന്തോഷിച്ചു തുള്ളുക, വിജയോത്സവം നടത്തുക, ഉല്ലസിക്കുക, വളരെ ആഹ്ലാദിക്കുക
exult in Kannada
ಹಿಗ್ಗು, ಮೆರೆ, ಉಬ್ಬು, ಎದೆತುಂಬು
exult in Arabic
مرح mariḥa

Examples of exult in a sentence

  • “I delight in your commands because I love them,” the writer exults (verse 47).
  • How I long for a deckful of my friends to exult with me in this delight !
  • How I exult when the moon-flood gushes, drowning the white snowspurt of the Devil's snake!

All 14 example sentences with exult

Forms of exult

third-person singular presentexults
present participleexulting
past participleexulted
pastexulted

Origin of exult

From Middle French exulter, from Latin exsultō, frequentative of exsiliō (“jump up”), from ex- + saliō (“jump, leap”).

Words formed from exult

Words that rhyme with exult

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about exult

What does exult mean?
Exult means to rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).
What is exult in Tamil?
Exult in Tamil is களி (kaḷi). See Exult meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is exult?
Exult is a verb.
How do you pronounce exult?
Exult is pronounced /ɪɡˈzʌlt/.
What is the past tense of exult?
The past tense of exult is exulted.

Words near exult in the dictionary

  1. exulcerating
  2. exulceration
  3. exulcerations
  4. exulcerative
  5. exuls
  6. exult
  7. exultance
  8. exultances
  9. exultancies
  10. exultancy
  11. exultant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exult (page history and authors); களி (Tamil) (page history and authors); exult (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exult (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exult (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exult (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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