Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1889, French, literally "joy of living."
Wiktionary
n. enjoyment of living; happiness, ebullience, zest for life.
WordNet
n. a keen enjoyment of living
Wikipedia
Joie de Vivre (English: Joy of Life) is an outdoor sculpture by Mark di Suvero, located at Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The 70-foot sculpture, composed of "open-ended tetrahedrons", was installed by the intersection of Broadway and Cedar Street in June 2006 and was previously located at the Holland Tunnel rotary (also named St. John's Park).
In October 2011, during Occupy Wall Street, a man climbed Joie de Vivre, where he remained for several hours until he was escorted down by police.
Joie De Vivre is an American emo band from Rockford, Illinois, United States.
Usage examples of "joie de vivre".
She thought of the capricious joie de vivre of the pine marten, its innocence and its complete absorption in the business of being itself, and realised quite suddenly that she had exchanged the carelessness of youth for something very like unhappiness.
If she just put her mind to it she could be plucky, she could have joie de vivre—.
The last, surely, was pure joie de vivre, as was David's refusal to leave the hotelnow their hotelfor dinner.
He soared round the whole thing with bursting joie de vivre, even to the extent of passing the favourite on the run-in, and we came back to bear hugs from the blue hair (for the benefit of television) and an offer to me of a spare ride in the fifth race, from a worried-looking small-time trainer.