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joyhood

joyhood noun: the quality, condition, or state of joy.

Noun

joyhood (uncountable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) The quality, condition, or state of joy.
    • Green grove of Clifton! though vanished our boyhood, We'll visit your glade in some fair eve of June; Yet lingers the spirit which brightened life's joyhood, […]1853, Edward HIND, Spencer Timothy Hall, Poems
    • Previous to his beginning to speak, the whole of that great crowd of spirits was moving about, talking, laughing, etc., but while he spoke there was a holy calm, a perfect silence resting on the scene. Joyhood ceased its laugh, the brook staid its murmur, […]1898, John Worth Edmonds, George T. Dexter, Spiritualism

Origin of joyhood

From joy + -hood.

Questions about joyhood

What does joyhood mean?
Joyhood means the quality, condition, or state of joy.
What part of speech is joyhood?
Joyhood is a noun.

Words near joyhood in the dictionary

  1. joyfully
  2. joyfulness
  3. joyfulnesses
  4. joygasm
  5. joygasms
  6. joyhood
  7. joyhop
  8. joyhopped
  9. joyhopping
  10. joyhops
  11. joyhouse

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