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exultant

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Latin exultantem / exsultantem (nominative exultans / exsultans ) "boastful, vainglorious," present participle of exultare / exsultare (see exult ). Related: Exultantly .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" [syn: exulting , jubilant , prideful , rejoicing , triumphal , triumphant ]

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Exultant is a science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter . It is part two of the Destiny's Children series. The book was published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in September 2004.

Usage examples of exultant.

The violin was in the grape arbour, singing a perfect jumble of everything, poured out in an exultant tumult.

But at that moment they heard a fiercely exultant cry from Durk Undis.

An exultant cheer went up from everyone, and they pounded each other upon the back and danced delirious jigs of triumph in the sunlight.

And yet my friend seems exultant to have found a place that she can farm, and claim, and turn into something of her very own, for until she went homesteading, she had almost nothing.

Such words as peltast, androgyn, and exultant are substitutions of this kind, and are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive.

As if in answer, the kingfisher dropped with his musical plash, and swept back with exultant rattle to his watchtower.

The man who will turn his back on love, and upon all the fruitful it, and will set himself single-heartedly to gather gold in an exultant dream of wielding its Plutonic powers, will find the treasure yielding quickly to his touch.

Over all the earth at once, now that the roar of the engine had stopped, there was an immense and brooding quietness, a drowsed autumnal fume and warmth, immensely desolate and mournful, holding somehow a tragic prophecy of winter that must come, and death, and yet touched with the lonely, mournful and exultant mystery of the earth.

New England knows, if one came here as many a lonely youth had come here in the past, some boy from the inland immensity of America, some homesick lad from the South, from the marvellous hills of Old Catawba, he might be pierced again by the bitter ecstasy of youth, the ecstasy that tears him apart with a cry that has no tongue, the ecstasy that is proud, lonely, and exultant, that is fierce with joy and a moment, that the intangible cannot be touched, the ungraspable cannot be grasped--the imperial and magnificent minute is gone for ever which, with all its promises, its million intuitions, he wishes to clothe with the living substance of beauty.

Swept her up from the chair and embraced her, essayed a few steps of a popular danza, was gratified and emboldened by her echoing, exultant laughter, by her unfettered joy, by the magnitude of her response.

Klingon bird-of-prey, Duras was exultant, reveling in the sweet taste of revenge.

Urik von Kharkov, and for a fleeting, exultant moment, he thought he had at long last gained his freedom.

The Phoenix Exultant carried factories for the nucleogenesis of antimatter, in volume and output as large as any dozen of the antimatter-production facilities orbiting near Mercury Equilateral.

At last from the captured ridges the exultant troops could see far away the haze which lay over the roofs of Ladysmith, and the besieged, with hearts beating high with hope, turned their glasses upon the distant mottled patches which told them that their comrades were approaching.

He empathised with her pain, but he was exultant about the rapid progress they were making.