Crossword clues for jocund
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jocund \Joc"und\, [L. jocundus, jucundus, orig., helpful, fr. juvare to help. See Aid.] Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
--Shak.
Rural sports and jocund strains.
--Prior.
-- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.
Jocund \Joc"und\, adv.
Merrily; cheerfully.
--Gray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin iocundus (source of Spanish jocunde, Italian giocondo), variant (influenced by iocus "joke") of Latin iucundus "pleasant," originally "helpful," contraction of *iuvicundus, from iuvare "to please, benefit, help" (see adjutant).
Wiktionary
a. jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
WordNet
adj. full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful]
Usage examples of "jocund".
Fool valiant and wise, a maker of songs, of quips and quiddities many and jocund, Joconde hight.
Who has not welcomed, even as we, That jocund minstrel and his lays Beside the idle summer sea And in the vacant summer days?
Look how the liberal and transfiguring air Washes this inn of memorable meetings, This centre of ravishments and gracious greetings, Till, through its jocund loveliness of length A tidal-race of lust from shore to shore, A brimming reach of beauty met with strength, It shines and sounds like some miraculous dream, Some vision multitudinous and agleam, Of happiness as it shall be evermore!
The Metal Babes building like crystals from hearts of radiance beneath the play of jocund orbs!
Out they trooped, swirling from every rent and gap -- orbs scarlet and sapphire, ruby orbs, orbs tuliped and irised -- the jocund suns of the birth chamber and side by side with them hosts of the frozen, pale gilt, stiff rayed suns.
Their jocund air irritated her, and she stared ahead in stony silence.
As sweet as when in distant years She heard them peal with jocund din A merry English Christmas in!
If you had seen those hardy and sinewy Frenchmen gliding in the dusk of evening from cottage to cottage, passing the word that the Americans had arrived, saying airy things and pinching one another as they met and hurried on, you would have thought something very amusing and wholly jocund was in preparation for the people of Vincennes.
CHAPTER VI The cottage in which Guida lived at the Place du Vier Prison was in jocund contrast to the dungeon from which the Chevalier Orvilliers du Champsavoys de Beaumanoir had complacently issued.
It pleased the fancy of the jocund company to address to me a bulletin of the pleasant and unpleasant occurrences of the journey.
The absence of the pervading and jocund steamboatman from the billiard-saloon was explained.
Where jocund nature smiles In all her boon attire, And roams the deeply-tangled wilds Of hawthorn and sweet-brier.
The horn bids the echoes Awake as we go, And nature is jocund With hark!
If you appear learned to an ignorant wench, or jocund to a sad, or witty to a foolish, why she presently begins to mistrust herself.
No more for thee the laughter and the song, The jocund night--the glory of the day!