Definition of Merry

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Definition of Merry

Merry

Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.

Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.

Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.

A kind of wild red cherry.

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Merry Quotations

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
King Solomon

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.
King Solomon

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Washington Irving

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
Matt Groening

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
George Jean Nathan

I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.
Jerry Stiller

I am all for the short and merry life.
Edward Fitzgerald

Merry Translations

merry in Afrikaans is vrolik
merry in Dutch is goedgeluimd, goedgehumeurd
merry in Finnish is iloinen
merry in French is gai, heureuse, jovial
merry in Italian is festevole, lieto, giocondo
merry in Latin is hilaris
merry in Norwegian is lystig
merry in Portuguese is alegre
merry in Swedish is god, munter

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