Definition of gaiety in English:

gaiety

(US gayety)

noun ˈɡeɪətiˈɡeɪədi

mass noun

1The state or quality of being light-hearted or cheerful.
欢乐，高兴
the sudden gaiety of children's laughter
孩子们突然迸发出的快乐的笑声。
Example sentencesExamples
- If red roses are arranged with yellow roses or blossoms contain both red and yellow coloration, they express gaiety, joviality and happiness.
- Event Management, as a profession, is gaining increasing relevance what with the intension of the people to conduct functions, including marriages and school functions, with pomp and gaiety.
- But it is impossible by words to convey any idea of the effect of his conversation, and of the impression made by so much philosophy, gaiety and humour, accompanied by a manner at once so animated and simple.
- But he would much rather be on the boat, facing aliens, monsters, and just plain bad guys, than facing the cheerfulness and gaiety of another Christmas season.
- All my cousins and aunts and uncles got together in my grandfather's house and we all spent this day together with traditional gaiety and tons of happiness.
- This externalisation removes all sense of the latent, and, by extension, the disturbing, licensing the audience to observe this play's gaiety and poignancies without being perpetually wary of killjoy provisos.
- Of all deceptive things on earth nothing is so deceptive as mere gaiety and merriment.
- Christmas even in more modern times has not always been remembered with gaiety and good cheer.
- I am sorry to hurt any man's feelings, and to brush away the magnificent fabric of levity and gaiety that he has reared; but I accuse our minister of honesty and diligence; I deny that he is careless of rash.
- The Sikh community of the twin cities celebrated Baisakhi with religious fervour and gaiety here on Wednesday.
- On first seeing these works, the viewer is overtaken by a sense of gaiety and joyfulness.
- Village fairs were occasions for happiness and gaiety.
- Life and crime are games to these characters, and they vacillate between childish gaiety and immoderate violence.
- His exuberance, gaiety and intelligence made him many friends and his irrepressible high spirits and disregard for authority sometimes strained the patience of his tolerant and long suffering housemaster.
- The evening went on with such joyous gaiety that no one present would soon forget it.
- The 30 comedies that he composed after his return to Paris reveal an art capable of admitting serious and even tragic experience without sacrificing the laughter, gaiety, and exuberance proper to comedy.
- He paid tribute to Abbeyside Pattern Committee and those who helped to light the Village, giving an atmosphere of gaiety and good cheer for the Christmas Season.
- In a blaze of dazzling light and gayety, White City, the new pleasure resort on the South side, which was given over to the public today, opened its doors last night and showed some few thousands of its friends the completeness of its larder of entertainment and innocent, as well as interesting, diversion.
- Young people there exude gaiety and mirth, for who could be cynical about love in Italy while thinking of Shakespeare's play?
- I expect my chosen career to last several more years, and bring happiness and gaiety.
Synonyms
cheerfulness, cheer, light-heartedness, merriment, glee, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, delight, pleasure, high spirits, good spirits, good humour, jollity, jolliness, hilarity, mirth, joviality, exuberance, elation, exultation, euphoria, jubilation
liveliness, vivacity, animation, effervescence, levity, buoyancy, sprightliness, zest, zestfulness
French joie de vivre
informal chirpiness, bounce, pep, zing
literary gladsomeness, blitheness, blithesomeness
rare gayness
1. 1.1 Lively celebration or festivities.
  he seemed to be a part of the gaiety, having a wonderful time
  他似乎已融入到庆祝活动中，玩得高兴极了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Pomp, pageantry and gaiety ran riot making the atmosphere electric.
  Time for celebration, festivities, gaiety, food, drink, laughter… oh, that's Christmas Eve.
  So it was nice to be invited to the jollity and gaiety of a wedding for once instead of being summonsed to a cremation.
  Leopold Hawelka, himself, will often add to the day's gaiety by inducing strangers to share your table, leaving you free to ignore or chat to them as you will.
  It stood in stark contrast to the gaiety and celebration of the previous day at Lake Burley Griffin.
  The gaiety surrounding Durga puja has universal appeal with people from every community participating in the festivities.
  Synonyms
  merrymaking, festivity, fun, fun and games, frolics, revels, revelry, jollification, celebration, rejoicing, pleasure
  informal living it up, larking about
  dated sport
2. 1.2gaietiesdated Entertainments or amusements.
  〈旧〉娱乐表演；娱乐活动
  people long for the enchantments and gaieties of the European cities
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mrs. Jerome had brought her two elder daughters to join in the gaieties of the regatta.
  Through these she saw the gaieties of the ‘Moondance’ festival in full force.
  Our harvest gaieties have come to a close, and the ghost stories are about to begin.
  Ninon's return to the gayeties of her drawing rooms was hailed with loud acclamations from all quarters.
  By the advice of her ministers, she checked the gayeties of the court; she even submitted to a reduction of her income.

Phrases

the gaiety of nations

ironic General cheerfulness or amusement.
editors added to the gaiety of nations by suing each other
Example sentencesExamples
- As part of my contribution to the gaiety of nations, I'll tell you what he told me.
- It is a strange career to look back upon; a career associated, throughout, with the gaiety of nations.
- British Euro-skepticism may irritate others, but let's be fair - it has much contributed to the gaiety of nations.
- I am sure your government merely intended to contribute some homespun humor to the general gaiety of nations, as Queen Marie Antoinette so famously did in her day.
- All of this is fine and adds to the gaiety of nations but, oh, those terrible songs.
- I do feel I've contributed to the gaiety of nations and I can't deny I get a vibe out of all the acclaim.
- It was certainly not because, as a smiling friend suggested, I imagined I was thereby adding to the gaiety of nations.
- It has also added a little to the gaiety of nations.
- April has added to the gaiety of nations - dancing on tables, drinking champagne from slippers at dawn, hurtling around in fast cars with louche aristocrats.
- His distinctive contribution to the gaiety of nations has been to discern high comedy in the low compromises of kitsch.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French gaieté, from gai (see gay).

Definition of gaiety in US English:

gaiety

(also gayety)

nounˈɡāədēˈɡeɪədi

1The state or quality of being lighthearted or cheerful.
欢乐，高兴
the sudden gaiety of children's laughter
孩子们突然迸发出的快乐的笑声。
Example sentencesExamples
- In a blaze of dazzling light and gayety, White City, the new pleasure resort on the South side, which was given over to the public today, opened its doors last night and showed some few thousands of its friends the completeness of its larder of entertainment and innocent, as well as interesting, diversion.
- Young people there exude gaiety and mirth, for who could be cynical about love in Italy while thinking of Shakespeare's play?
- Christmas even in more modern times has not always been remembered with gaiety and good cheer.
- Event Management, as a profession, is gaining increasing relevance what with the intension of the people to conduct functions, including marriages and school functions, with pomp and gaiety.
- The Sikh community of the twin cities celebrated Baisakhi with religious fervour and gaiety here on Wednesday.
- But he would much rather be on the boat, facing aliens, monsters, and just plain bad guys, than facing the cheerfulness and gaiety of another Christmas season.
- I am sorry to hurt any man's feelings, and to brush away the magnificent fabric of levity and gaiety that he has reared; but I accuse our minister of honesty and diligence; I deny that he is careless of rash.
- I expect my chosen career to last several more years, and bring happiness and gaiety.
- Of all deceptive things on earth nothing is so deceptive as mere gaiety and merriment.
- On first seeing these works, the viewer is overtaken by a sense of gaiety and joyfulness.
- But it is impossible by words to convey any idea of the effect of his conversation, and of the impression made by so much philosophy, gaiety and humour, accompanied by a manner at once so animated and simple.
- He paid tribute to Abbeyside Pattern Committee and those who helped to light the Village, giving an atmosphere of gaiety and good cheer for the Christmas Season.
- All my cousins and aunts and uncles got together in my grandfather's house and we all spent this day together with traditional gaiety and tons of happiness.
- This externalisation removes all sense of the latent, and, by extension, the disturbing, licensing the audience to observe this play's gaiety and poignancies without being perpetually wary of killjoy provisos.
- His exuberance, gaiety and intelligence made him many friends and his irrepressible high spirits and disregard for authority sometimes strained the patience of his tolerant and long suffering housemaster.
- Village fairs were occasions for happiness and gaiety.
- The evening went on with such joyous gaiety that no one present would soon forget it.
- If red roses are arranged with yellow roses or blossoms contain both red and yellow coloration, they express gaiety, joviality and happiness.
- Life and crime are games to these characters, and they vacillate between childish gaiety and immoderate violence.
- The 30 comedies that he composed after his return to Paris reveal an art capable of admitting serious and even tragic experience without sacrificing the laughter, gaiety, and exuberance proper to comedy.
Synonyms
cheerfulness, cheer, light-heartedness, merriment, glee, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, delight, pleasure, high spirits, good spirits, good humour, jollity, jolliness, hilarity, mirth, joviality, exuberance, elation, exultation, euphoria, jubilation
1. 1.1 Merrymaking or festivity.
  玩乐；欢庆；庆祝活动
  he seemed to be a part of the gaiety, having a wonderful time
  他似乎已融入到庆祝活动中，玩得高兴极了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So it was nice to be invited to the jollity and gaiety of a wedding for once instead of being summonsed to a cremation.
  The gaiety surrounding Durga puja has universal appeal with people from every community participating in the festivities.
  It stood in stark contrast to the gaiety and celebration of the previous day at Lake Burley Griffin.
  Leopold Hawelka, himself, will often add to the day's gaiety by inducing strangers to share your table, leaving you free to ignore or chat to them as you will.
  Pomp, pageantry and gaiety ran riot making the atmosphere electric.
  Time for celebration, festivities, gaiety, food, drink, laughter… oh, that's Christmas Eve.
  Synonyms
  merrymaking, festivity, fun, fun and games, frolics, revels, revelry, jollification, celebration, rejoicing, pleasure
2. 1.2gaietiesdated Entertainments or amusements.
  〈旧〉娱乐表演；娱乐活动
  Example sentencesExamples
  Our harvest gaieties have come to a close, and the ghost stories are about to begin.
  By the advice of her ministers, she checked the gayeties of the court; she even submitted to a reduction of her income.
  Through these she saw the gaieties of the ‘Moondance’ festival in full force.
  Mrs. Jerome had brought her two elder daughters to join in the gaieties of the regatta.
  Ninon's return to the gayeties of her drawing rooms was hailed with loud acclamations from all quarters.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French gaieté, from gai (see gay).

词汇	gaiety
释义	Definition of gaiety in English: gaiety (US gayety) noun ˈɡeɪətiˈɡeɪədi mass noun 1The state or quality of being light-hearted or cheerful. 欢乐，高兴 the sudden gaiety of children's laughter 孩子们突然迸发出的快乐的笑声。 Example sentencesExamples If red roses are arranged with yellow roses or blossoms contain both red and yellow coloration, they express gaiety, joviality and happiness. Event Management, as a profession, is gaining increasing relevance what with the intension of the people to conduct functions, including marriages and school functions, with pomp and gaiety. But it is impossible by words to convey any idea of the effect of his conversation, and of the impression made by so much philosophy, gaiety and humour, accompanied by a manner at once so animated and simple. But he would much rather be on the boat, facing aliens, monsters, and just plain bad guys, than facing the cheerfulness and gaiety of another Christmas season. All my cousins and aunts and uncles got together in my grandfather's house and we all spent this day together with traditional gaiety and tons of happiness. This externalisation removes all sense of the latent, and, by extension, the disturbing, licensing the audience to observe this play's gaiety and poignancies without being perpetually wary of killjoy provisos. Of all deceptive things on earth nothing is so deceptive as mere gaiety and merriment. Christmas even in more modern times has not always been remembered with gaiety and good cheer. I am sorry to hurt any man's feelings, and to brush away the magnificent fabric of levity and gaiety that he has reared; but I accuse our minister of honesty and diligence; I deny that he is careless of rash. The Sikh community of the twin cities celebrated Baisakhi with religious fervour and gaiety here on Wednesday. On first seeing these works, the viewer is overtaken by a sense of gaiety and joyfulness. Village fairs were occasions for happiness and gaiety. Life and crime are games to these characters, and they vacillate between childish gaiety and immoderate violence. His exuberance, gaiety and intelligence made him many friends and his irrepressible high spirits and disregard for authority sometimes strained the patience of his tolerant and long suffering housemaster. The evening went on with such joyous gaiety that no one present would soon forget it. The 30 comedies that he composed after his return to Paris reveal an art capable of admitting serious and even tragic experience without sacrificing the laughter, gaiety, and exuberance proper to comedy. He paid tribute to Abbeyside Pattern Committee and those who helped to light the Village, giving an atmosphere of gaiety and good cheer for the Christmas Season. In a blaze of dazzling light and gayety, White City, the new pleasure resort on the South side, which was given over to the public today, opened its doors last night and showed some few thousands of its friends the completeness of its larder of entertainment and innocent, as well as interesting, diversion. Young people there exude gaiety and mirth, for who could be cynical about love in Italy while thinking of Shakespeare's play? I expect my chosen career to last several more years, and bring happiness and gaiety. Synonyms cheerfulness, cheer, light-heartedness, merriment, glee, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, delight, pleasure, high spirits, good spirits, good humour, jollity, jolliness, hilarity, mirth, joviality, exuberance, elation, exultation, euphoria, jubilation liveliness, vivacity, animation, effervescence, levity, buoyancy, sprightliness, zest, zestfulness French joie de vivre informal chirpiness, bounce, pep, zing literary gladsomeness, blitheness, blithesomeness rare gayness 1.1 Lively celebration or festivities. he seemed to be a part of the gaiety, having a wonderful time 他似乎已融入到庆祝活动中，玩得高兴极了。 Example sentencesExamples Pomp, pageantry and gaiety ran riot making the atmosphere electric. Time for celebration, festivities, gaiety, food, drink, laughter… oh, that's Christmas Eve. So it was nice to be invited to the jollity and gaiety of a wedding for once instead of being summonsed to a cremation. Leopold Hawelka, himself, will often add to the day's gaiety by inducing strangers to share your table, leaving you free to ignore or chat to them as you will. It stood in stark contrast to the gaiety and celebration of the previous day at Lake Burley Griffin. The gaiety surrounding Durga puja has universal appeal with people from every community participating in the festivities. Synonyms merrymaking, festivity, fun, fun and games, frolics, revels, revelry, jollification, celebration, rejoicing, pleasure informal living it up, larking about dated sport 1.2gaietiesdated Entertainments or amusements. 〈旧〉娱乐表演；娱乐活动 people long for the enchantments and gaieties of the European cities Example sentencesExamples Mrs. Jerome had brought her two elder daughters to join in the gaieties of the regatta. Through these she saw the gaieties of the ‘Moondance’ festival in full force. Our harvest gaieties have come to a close, and the ghost stories are about to begin. Ninon's return to the gayeties of her drawing rooms was hailed with loud acclamations from all quarters. By the advice of her ministers, she checked the gayeties of the court; she even submitted to a reduction of her income. Phrases the gaiety of nations ironic General cheerfulness or amusement. editors added to the gaiety of nations by suing each other Example sentencesExamples As part of my contribution to the gaiety of nations, I'll tell you what he told me. It is a strange career to look back upon; a career associated, throughout, with the gaiety of nations. British Euro-skepticism may irritate others, but let's be fair - it has much contributed to the gaiety of nations. I am sure your government merely intended to contribute some homespun humor to the general gaiety of nations, as Queen Marie Antoinette so famously did in her day. All of this is fine and adds to the gaiety of nations but, oh, those terrible songs. I do feel I've contributed to the gaiety of nations and I can't deny I get a vibe out of all the acclaim. It was certainly not because, as a smiling friend suggested, I imagined I was thereby adding to the gaiety of nations. It has also added a little to the gaiety of nations. April has added to the gaiety of nations - dancing on tables, drinking champagne from slippers at dawn, hurtling around in fast cars with louche aristocrats. His distinctive contribution to the gaiety of nations has been to discern high comedy in the low compromises of kitsch. Origin Mid 17th century: from French gaieté, from gai (see gay). noun.1 phr. Definition of gaiety in US English: gaiety (also gayety) nounˈɡāədēˈɡeɪədi 1The state or quality of being lighthearted or cheerful. 欢乐，高兴 the sudden gaiety of children's laughter 孩子们突然迸发出的快乐的笑声。 Example sentencesExamples In a blaze of dazzling light and gayety, White City, the new pleasure resort on the South side, which was given over to the public today, opened its doors last night and showed some few thousands of its friends the completeness of its larder of entertainment and innocent, as well as interesting, diversion. Young people there exude gaiety and mirth, for who could be cynical about love in Italy while thinking of Shakespeare's play? Christmas even in more modern times has not always been remembered with gaiety and good cheer. Event Management, as a profession, is gaining increasing relevance what with the intension of the people to conduct functions, including marriages and school functions, with pomp and gaiety. The Sikh community of the twin cities celebrated Baisakhi with religious fervour and gaiety here on Wednesday. But he would much rather be on the boat, facing aliens, monsters, and just plain bad guys, than facing the cheerfulness and gaiety of another Christmas season. I am sorry to hurt any man's feelings, and to brush away the magnificent fabric of levity and gaiety that he has reared; but I accuse our minister of honesty and diligence; I deny that he is careless of rash. I expect my chosen career to last several more years, and bring happiness and gaiety. Of all deceptive things on earth nothing is so deceptive as mere gaiety and merriment. On first seeing these works, the viewer is overtaken by a sense of gaiety and joyfulness. But it is impossible by words to convey any idea of the effect of his conversation, and of the impression made by so much philosophy, gaiety and humour, accompanied by a manner at once so animated and simple. He paid tribute to Abbeyside Pattern Committee and those who helped to light the Village, giving an atmosphere of gaiety and good cheer for the Christmas Season. All my cousins and aunts and uncles got together in my grandfather's house and we all spent this day together with traditional gaiety and tons of happiness. This externalisation removes all sense of the latent, and, by extension, the disturbing, licensing the audience to observe this play's gaiety and poignancies without being perpetually wary of killjoy provisos. His exuberance, gaiety and intelligence made him many friends and his irrepressible high spirits and disregard for authority sometimes strained the patience of his tolerant and long suffering housemaster. Village fairs were occasions for happiness and gaiety. The evening went on with such joyous gaiety that no one present would soon forget it. If red roses are arranged with yellow roses or blossoms contain both red and yellow coloration, they express gaiety, joviality and happiness. Life and crime are games to these characters, and they vacillate between childish gaiety and immoderate violence. The 30 comedies that he composed after his return to Paris reveal an art capable of admitting serious and even tragic experience without sacrificing the laughter, gaiety, and exuberance proper to comedy. Synonyms cheerfulness, cheer, light-heartedness, merriment, glee, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, delight, pleasure, high spirits, good spirits, good humour, jollity, jolliness, hilarity, mirth, joviality, exuberance, elation, exultation, euphoria, jubilation 1.1 Merrymaking or festivity. 玩乐；欢庆；庆祝活动 he seemed to be a part of the gaiety, having a wonderful time 他似乎已融入到庆祝活动中，玩得高兴极了。 Example sentencesExamples So it was nice to be invited to the jollity and gaiety of a wedding for once instead of being summonsed to a cremation. The gaiety surrounding Durga puja has universal appeal with people from every community participating in the festivities. It stood in stark contrast to the gaiety and celebration of the previous day at Lake Burley Griffin. Leopold Hawelka, himself, will often add to the day's gaiety by inducing strangers to share your table, leaving you free to ignore or chat to them as you will. Pomp, pageantry and gaiety ran riot making the atmosphere electric. Time for celebration, festivities, gaiety, food, drink, laughter… oh, that's Christmas Eve. Synonyms merrymaking, festivity, fun, fun and games, frolics, revels, revelry, jollification, celebration, rejoicing, pleasure 1.2gaietiesdated Entertainments or amusements. 〈旧〉娱乐表演；娱乐活动 Example sentencesExamples Our harvest gaieties have come to a close, and the ghost stories are about to begin. By the advice of her ministers, she checked the gayeties of the court; she even submitted to a reduction of her income. Through these she saw the gaieties of the ‘Moondance’ festival in full force. Mrs. Jerome had brought her two elder daughters to join in the gaieties of the regatta. Ninon's return to the gayeties of her drawing rooms was hailed with loud acclamations from all quarters. Origin Mid 17th century: from French gaieté, from gai (see gay).
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