Definition of "joy" []

• Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness. (noun)
• The expression or manifestation of such feeling. (noun)
• A source or an object of pleasure or satisfaction: their only child, their pride and joy. (noun)
• To take great pleasure; rejoice. (verb-intransitive)
• Archaic To fill with ecstatic happiness, pleasure, or satisfaction. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "With panting joy that she was there at last, —joy that overcame all distress, —Maggie neared the front of the house."
• "Not, however, in all kinds of joy, for the _joy of the hypocrite_ is _but for a moment_, [1] that is to say, lasts but for a moment."
• "Oh, I get such joy, such delicious _joy_ from life. ""