Definition of "joyously" []

• In a joyful manner; joyfully. (adverb)

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• "Instead it was in Barcelona that he was finally able to express his sexual feelings, as the city emerged joyously from the shadow of dictatorship after Franco's death."
• "And, "Contact, Jerry!" she called joyously into the darkness."
• "Nautica hurried to a window, and now saw a blur of light through the fog, showing that the steamer had safely passed us; but, though she called joyously, she was not in time to stay the Commodore, who had already dashed into the cockpit beating the tongueless bell with her curling-irons."