laughter

Plural

laughters

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

   • Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.
   • There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town.

2. 2.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.

   • Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter.
   • The act of laughter, which is caused by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.

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Everyday conversation

Uncommon

General reading & writing

Rare

Academic

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Literature

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Synonyms

• laugh

Word family

• laugh