gaiety
Syllables: gai·e·ty/ˈɡeɪ.ə.ti/
gaiety noun: the state of being happy or merry.
Noun
gaiety (countable and uncountable, plural gaieties)
- The state of being happy or merry.
- There was much gaiety at the ball.
- The decorations added greatly to the gaiety of the room.
- Synonyms:
- gayfulness, gayness, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, cheeriness, contentness, contentedness, delight, delightedness
- Merrymaking or festivity.
- And he would tell her all sorts of wonders, old-world gaieties, long before she was born; and how finely the great Mr. [George Frideric] Handel played upon the harpischord^([sic]) in the Music Hall, and how his talk was in German, Latin, French, English, Italian, and half-a-dozen languages beside...1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “How an Evening Passes at the Elms, and Dr. Toole Makes a Little Excursion; and Two Choice Spirits Discourse, and Hebe Trips In with the Nectar”, in The House by the...
gaiety meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
gaiety in Tamil
- மகிழ்ச்சி, களி, கிளர்ச்சி
gaiety in Urdu
- بانک پن, بشاشت
gaiety in Malayalam
- ആഹ്ലാദം, ഉത്സവം, വസ്ത്രമോടി
gaiety in Kannada
- ಉಲ್ಲಾಸ, ಹರ್ಷ, ಗೆಲುವು, ನಲಿವು, ನಲಿದಾಟ, ಖುಷಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- gaiety in Tagalog
- kaligayahan, katuwaan, kasiyahan
- gaiety in Persian
- شادمانی šâdmâni
Examples of gaiety in a sentence
- This gave rise to dancing and dinner parties, and fun and gaiety.
- Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.
- I dug my spoon into it with an assumption of gaiety which I was far from feeling.
Synonyms of gaiety
- gayfulness
- gayness
- blitheness
- blithesomeness
- cheerfulness
- cheeriness
- contentness
- contentedness
- delight
- delightedness
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Forms of gaiety
| plural | gaieties |
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Origin of gaiety
Borrowed from Middle French gaieté, from gai. By surface analysis, gay + -ety.
Words that rhyme with gaiety
Questions about gaiety
- What does gaiety mean?
- Gaiety means the state of being happy or merry.
- What is gaiety in Tamil?
- Gaiety in Tamil is மகிழ்ச்சி, களி, கிளர்ச்சி. See Gaiety meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is gaiety?
- Gaiety is a noun.
- How do you pronounce gaiety?
- Gaiety is pronounced /ˈɡeɪ.ə.ti/.
- What is the plural of gaiety?
- The plural of gaiety is gaieties.
Words near gaiety in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gaiety (page history and authors); gaiety (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gaiety (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gaiety (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gaiety (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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