Joyname/d͡ʒɔɪ/

• 1

  A female given name from English.

  • "I have no name: / I am but two days old." / What shall I call thee? / "I happy am, / Joy is my name." / Sweet joy befall thee!
  • She was named Muriel — after the rather peculiar name of John's mother. Her own mother would have it so; only wishing out of her full heart, happy one! that there should be a slight alteration made in the second name. Therefore the baby was called Muriel Joy — Muriel Joy Halifax.
• 2

  A surname.

joynoun/d͡ʒɔɪ/

• 1

  A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.

  • a child's joy on Christmas morning
  • It is his joy to walk in the rain.
• 2

  Anything that causes such a feeling.

  • the joys and demands of parenthood
  • For, ye are our glory and ioy.
• 3

  Luck or success; a positive outcome.

  • Grant had no joy with taking a nap, so he began to systematically feel if everything was working: fingers and toes, etc.
  • 'Rob? It's Gary. Are you having any joy with this trip to Bali?' 'No joy at all, mate. I reckon Bali's out for the foreseeable future. […]
• 4

  obsoleteThe sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.

  • Such ioy made Vna, when her knight she found;
  • The roofs with joy resound.

joyintj/d͡ʒɔɪ/

• 1

  datedExpressing appreciation and happiness.

  • 'Joy! joy!' he cried, throwing his arms towards Heaven, 'on a grave be the site of our Temple; and now our happiness is for Eternity!'
  • Hanrahan closed his mouth, tried unsuccessfully to breathe through his nose, then opened his mouth again. "Oh, joy," he muttered. "This kid doesn't even go to the bathroom, I bet. Probably been taught not to. It isn't nice."

joyverb/d͡ʒɔɪ/

• 1

  To feel joy, to rejoice.

  • for oftymes or this oure lord shewed hym vnto good men and vnto good knyghtes in lykenes of an herte But I suppose from hens forth ye shalle see no more / and thenne they Ioyed moche / and dwelled ther alle that day / And vpon the morowe whan they had herde masse / they departed and commaunded the good man to god
  • I joy to see you wear around your neck the holy relic I bestowed on you;—but what Moorish charmlet is that you wear beside it?
• 2

  archaicTo enjoy.

  • I haue my wish, in that I ioy thy sight,
  • For from the time that Scudamour her bought, In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day […].
• 3

  obsoleteTo give joy to; to congratulate.

  • Then round our Death-bed ev'ry Friend ſhou'd run, / And joy us of our Conqueſt, early won: […]
  • Evil like Us they shun, and covet Good; Abhor the Poison, and receive the Food. Like Us they love or hate: like Us they know, To joy the Friend, or grapple with the Foe.
• 4

  obsoleteTo gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

  • Yet neither pleasure’s art can joy my spirits, Nor yet the other’s distance comfort me.