Definition of "joyous" []

• Feeling or causing joy; joyful. See Synonyms at glad1. (adjective)

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• "It may be only grandstanding for the cameras, but I strongly suspect that it is something more, that Pinera speaks and acts for a people united in joyous admiration for the miners and their rescuers: united right across the gulf between right and left, poverty and wealth, one political party and another."
• "A class full of cheering fourth graders leaped to their feet, dancing in joyous excitement."
• "So I watched until I got to the scene I remembered, shouted “Aha!” in joyous triumph."