Joy \Joy\ (joi), n. [OE. joye, OF. joye, joie, goie, F. joie, L.
   gaudia, pl. of gaudium joy, fr. gaudere to rejoice, to be
   glad; cf. Gr. gai`ein to rejoice, gay^ros proud. Cf. Gaud,
   Jewel.]
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   1. The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or
      expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions
      caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a
      rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire;
      gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.
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            Her heavenly form beheld, all wished her joy.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
                                                  --Johnson.
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            Who, for the joy that was set before him, endured
            the cross, despising the shame.       --Heb. xii. 2.
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            Tears of true joy for his return.     --Shak.
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            Joy is a delight of the mind, from the consideration
            of the present or assured approaching possession of
            a good.                               --Locke.
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   2. That which causes joy or happiness.
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            For ye are our glory and joy.         --1 Thess. ii.
                                                  20.
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            A thing of beauty is a joy forever.   --Keats.
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   3. The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment;
      festivity.
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            Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.
                                                  --Spenser.
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            The roofs with joy resound.           --Dryden.
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   Note: Joy is used in composition, esp. with participles, to
         from many self-explaining compounds; as, joy-bells,
         joy-bringing, joy-inspiring, joy-resounding, etc.

   Syn: Gladness; pleasure; delight; happiness; exultation;
        transport; felicity; ecstasy; rapture; bliss; gayety;
        mirth; merriment; festivity; hilarity.
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	Joy \Joy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Joyed (joid); p. pr. & vb. n.
   Joying.] [OF. joir, F. jouir. See Joy, n.]
   To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.
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         I will joy in the God of my salvation.   --Hab. iii.
                                                  18.
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         In whose sight all things joy.           --Milton.
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	Joy \Joy\, v. t.
   1. To give joy to; to congratulate. [Obs.] "Joy us of our
      conquest." --Dryden.
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            To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe. --Prior.
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   2. To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate. [Obs.]
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            Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits. --Shak.
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   3. To enjoy. [Obs.] See Enjoy.
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            Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.
                                                  --Milton.
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	joy
    n 1: the emotion of great happiness [syn: joy, joyousness,
         joyfulness] [ant: sorrow]
    2: something or someone that provides a source of happiness; "a
       joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car
       is a delight" [syn: joy, delight, pleasure]
    v 1: feel happiness or joy [syn: rejoice, joy]
    2: make glad or happy [syn: gladden, joy] [ant: sadden]

	

	96 Moby Thesaurus words for "joy":
   amusement, be in heaven, be pleased, beam, beatification,
   beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, caper,
   caracole, carol, cheer, cheerfulness, chirp, chirrup, clap hands,
   cloud nine, crow, crow over, dance, delectation, delight,
   die with delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment,
   enjoyment, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, exult, feel happy,
   felicity, frisk, frivolity, frolic, fruition, fun, gaiety, gambol,
   gladness, glee, gleefulness, gloat, gloat over, glory,
   go into raptures, happiness, heaven, high glee, high spirits,
   hilariousness, hilarity, intoxication, jocularity, jocundity,
   jolliness, jollity, joviality, joyance, joyfulness, joyousness,
   jubilate, laugh, laughter, levity, lilt, merriment, merriness,
   mirth, mirthfulness, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, purr,
   rapture, ravishment, rejoice, revel, rollick, romp, seventh heaven,
   sing, skip, skip for joy, smile, sunshine, take great satisfaction,
   transport, tread on air, triumph, unalloyed happiness, whistle

	

	Joy

    A functional programming language by Manfred von
   Thun.  Joy is unusual because it is not based on lambda
   calculus, but on the composition of functions.  Functions
   take a stack as argument, consume any number of parameters
   from it, and return it with any number of results on it.  The
   concatenation of programs denotes the composition of
   functions.  One of the datatypes of Joy is that of quoted
   programs, of which lists are a special case.

   Joy Home
   (http://latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html).

   (2003-06-13)

	

	Joy, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
   Population (2000):    373
   Housing Units (2000): 167
   Land area (2000):     0.419880 sq. miles (1.087485 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.419880 sq. miles (1.087485 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            38739
   Located within:       Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
   Location:             41.196923 N, 90.879702 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     61260
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Joy, IL
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