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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gaiety
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the warmth and gaiety of a family reunion
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bella and Jim needed some gaiety.
▪ But there was no enchantment of music or painting, or simple gaiety or just plain nonsense.
▪ By comparison with the cold cobbled alleys, the hotel restaurant was a scene of throbbing gaiety.
▪ He liked Weissenbruch's gaiety, and the man had a reputation for telling the truth.
▪ Life consisted mostly of enjoying the gaiety of a people being liberated after five years of occupation.
▪ There's something about those milestone birthdays that brings out millennial gloom rather than the gaiety in us all.
▪ We waved back a farewell, and general gaiety prevailed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
gaiety

gaiety \gai"e*ty\ (g[=a]"[-e]*t[y^]), n. Same as Gayety.

gaiety

Gayety \Gay"e*ty\, n.; pl. Gayeties. [Written also gaiety.]

  1. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.

  2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.

    Syn: Liveliness; mirth; animation; vivacity; glee; blithesomeness; sprightliness; jollity. See Liveliness.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gaiety

"cheerfulness, mirth," 1630s, from French gaieté (Old French gaiete, 12c.), from gai "gay" (see gay). In the 1890s, in Britain, especially with reference to a London theater of that name, and the kind of musical shows and dancing girls it presented.

Wiktionary
gaiety

n. (context uncountable English) The state of being happy.

WordNet
gaiety
  1. n. a gay feeling [syn: merriment]

  2. a festive merry feeling [syn: playfulness]

Wikipedia
Gaiety

Gaiety or Gayety may refer to:

  • Gaiety (mood), the state of being happy
  • Gaiety Theatre (disambiguation)
  • USS Gayety (AM-239, former name of the ship BRP Magat Salamat (PS-20)

Usage examples of "gaiety".

I learnt from it that amorous pleasures are the effect and not the cause of gaiety.

So sang Bibbs, his musical gaieties inaudible to his fellow-workmen because of the noise of the machinery.

As they drove across the Square it seemed almost to have been frozen in a cataleptic silence, the bulbous clusters of the street lamps around the Square burned with a hard and barren radiance--a ghastly mocking of life, of metropolitan gaiety, in a desert scene from which all life had by some pestilence or catastrophe of nature been extinguished.

When we were alone I congratulated her on her high spirits, telling her that my sadness had fled before her gaiety, and that the hours I could spend with her would be all too short.

In the midst of all this gaiety I could not help stealing many a furtive glance towards Callimena.

Wit, cheerfulness, decent manners, attended our delightful party, and did not expel the gaiety and the merry jests with which a Frenchman knows how to season every conversation.

But she did not notice this, for her gaiety made her look prettier than before, and aroused her passions.

I knew none of these people and for a moment the old shyness in me overcame my whisky-stimulated gaiety, and in the pushing and shoving and the din of voices I was looking round for Doddy or Jackie when I came face to face with someone I did know.

The frenzied festivities of Mardi Gras complemented her high-strung gaiety.

We made an excellent supper, which we washed down so well that at last the gaiety which had been simulated ended by being real.

He was a pleasant companion, for his gaiety was inexhaustible and he had a large knowledge of the world.

I found Warsaw in a state of gaiety, for a diet was to be held and everyone wished to know how it was that Catherine had given the Poles a native king.

He was not exactly handsome, but he had a perfect manner and an air of gaiety which seemed infectious, with a thorough knowledge of the laws of good society.

Next day Bolini told me that Brigida was far from suspecting his flight, as owing to his gaiety at the thought of freedom he had contented her so well during the night she had passed with him that she thought him as much in love as she was.

These North Italian cabinets were often covered with intarsia or marquetry, which by its subdued gaiety retrieved somewhat their heavy stateliness of form.