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Definition of Gaiety

1. Noun. A gay feeling.

Definition of Gaiety

1. n. Same as Gayety.

Definition of Gaiety

1. Noun. The state of being happy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gaiety

1. festive activity [n -ETIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaiety

Literary usage of Gaiety

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Nothing avails to stifle this gaiety — neither age, nor exile, ... gaiety in these days is a sort of intoxication that impels the drinker to empty the cask ..."

2. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"They displayed the gaiety of a carnival, the manners of a bivouac. Nothing could be more amusing than the aspect of Paris during the first days that ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Bettor than the fine panegyric which he wrote of him a few months after that event, that it had " eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the ..."

4. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"she exclaimed, with all her easy gaiety of old times. " Do you talk in that familiar manner of one of the landed gentry of England? ..."

5. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"Concerning the origin and measure of true joy which he is brought to dwell on by the sight of a beggar's gaiety. I PANTED after honours, gains, marriage; ..."

6. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"2 as "THE gaiety THEATRE," under the management of Alfred E. Aarons, with " The White ... 16; the "Night Owls" burlesque company, Sept. 23; "The gaiety ..."

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