laughter

laughter englannista suomeksi

1. nauru, nauraminen

0. Substantiivi

1. nauru

laughter englanniksi

1. The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

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3. A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.

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6. A reason for merriment.

7. (l); the production of laughs or snickers.

8. {{quote-book|enm|year=a.1400|author=Geoffrey Chaucer|title=Troilus and Criseyde|chapter=Book IV|line= 862–868|passage= She was right swich to seen in hir visage / As is that wight that men on bere binde / Hir face, lyk of Paradys the image / Was al y-chaunged in another kinde. / The pleye, the laughtre men was wont to finde / On hir, and eek hir Ioyes everychone, / Ben fled, and thus lyth now Criseyde allone.

9. An instance or bout of laughing or laughter.

10. A humorous matter; something worthy of being derided.