laughtre

Noun

laughter (usually uncountable, plural laughters)

1. (usually) The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
   • Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.
2. (usually) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
   • The act of laughter, which is caused by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC
3. (archaic, usually) A reason for merriment.

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