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sense of humour

sense of humour noun: a person’s faculty for finding certain things funny.

Noun

sense of humour (plural senses of humour)

  1. A person’s faculty for finding certain things funny.
    • I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand.1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112
    • The man’s right leg had been completely crushed in the crash, and he was losing a lot of blood.
      “Mr Goodie,” began the doctor as soon as Dad had been rushed into the Accident and Emergency department at the hospital. “I have some very bad news. We have to amputate your leg.”
      “Which one?” replied...2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Crushed in the Crash”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 16

sense of humour meaning in Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese

sense of humour in Tamil

நகைச்சுவை உணர்வு

sense of humour in Thai

person’s faculty for finding certain things funny
อารมณ์ขัน aa-rom-kǎn

sense of humour in Vietnamese

person’s faculty for finding certain things funny
khiếu hài hước

Forms of sense of humour

pluralsenses of humour
alternative formsense of humor

Questions about sense of humour

What does sense of humour mean?
Sense of humour means a person’s faculty for finding certain things funny.
What is sense of humour in Tamil?
Sense of humour in Tamil is நகைச்சுவை உணர்வு. See Sense of humour meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sense of humour?
Sense of humour is a noun.
What is the plural of sense of humour?
The plural of sense of humour is senses of humour.

Words near sense of humour in the dictionary

  1. sense data
  2. sense datum
  3. sense of craft
  4. sense of direction
  5. sense of humor
  6. sense of humour
  7. sense of place
  8. sense of time
  9. sense organ
  10. sense organs
  11. sense strand

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sense of humour (page history and authors); sense of humour (Tamil 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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