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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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late 14c., from Old French jubilacion "jubilation, rejoicing," and directly from Latin jubilationem (nominative jubilatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of jubilare (see jubilant ).
WordNet
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n. a feeling of extreme joy [syn: exultation , jubilance , jubilancy ] a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event [syn: celebration ] the utterance of sounds expressing great joy [syn: exultation , rejoicing ]
Wikipedia
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Jubilation is the tenth and final studio album by Canadian / American rock group the Band . Recorded in the spring of 1998 in Levon Helm 's home studio in Woodstock, New York , it was released on September 15, 1998. For the first time since the group reformed ...
Wiktionary
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n. A triumphant shouting; rejoice; exultation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jubilation \Ju`bi*la"tion\, n. [L. jubilatio: cf. F. jubilation.] A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation. ``Jubilations and hallelujahs.'' --South.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Shouts of jubilation rose from the crowd.
Usage examples of jubilation.
The first time the ship blinked out, rested, blinked back, there was jubilation at the blink base on the dark side.
The tubes looked like a rack of fat cigars, and with weary jubilation Charles saw that there were men still tending them, crouching behind the sheet of armour plate, waiting for Bloodhound to turn and bring Blucher on to her starboard Irish beam.
The sounds of conchs, elephants, dhol drums, trumpets, flutes, brahmins chanting, people shouting, and children crying with joy all mingled in one enormous cloud of jubilation.
Walls, gates and defences rise, parish churchesare built over Saxon villages, medieval commerce packs the streets with wood-beamed houses, and the kaleidoscope of history spins wildly on through coronations, insurrections and disharmonies, mutiny and jubilation eliding past, present and future.
Cimber who told him of his victory, the spoils his legions had dragged across the Ganga River whooping in jubilation.
It was the disheveled and breathless Cimber who told him of his victory, the spoils his legions had dragged across the Ganga River whooping in jubilation.
Victorio and Juh were there with a hunting party of Chi-hen-ne and Ned-ni and they joined in the jubilation, the feasting and the drinking and in the council of the warriors that was held in the open, the braves sitting in a circle about a small fire while Geronimo, eloquent with tizwin, narrated the exploits of his party, his style fettered by no embarrassing restraint of modesty.
Bjaaland, who had now left the company of the drivers and been received with jubilation into that of the forerunners, was immediately entrusted with the honourable task of leading the expedition forward to the Pole itself.
I know not whether they were the proclaimers of future or the dawning of already existing reality but I would see spectacles of countless enthusiastic multitudes, processions of festive people streaming together and marching in solemn rhythm, with jubilation and sound of clarion.
That calk for a little jubilation, whether or not the planet turns out to be one they can use.
When it ended, the Augustiani, Nero's hired claque, rose as one man in wild jubilation and cheering.
The men at the Brens huddled into their brown and green camouflage groundsheets, all their jubilation of ten minutes earlier completely gone.
Ralph asked, and Harry grabbed his shoulders and the two of them spun together in a yelling, stomping dance of jubilation on the narrow ledge, while Bazo leaned against the seam of black coal and watched them unsmilingly.
With hands that trembled with excitement and jubilation, Tommy Rockford began scooping palmsful of sand away from the spot marked by the bronze cross.
Her jubilation had to be cut short as Ford ordered her belted up for the run to the plateau.