EGAVE

laughter

About 12.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
    Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A reason for merriment.

Similar words

laugh laughing giggle giggling joke funny smile amusement fun smiling

Often followed by

and of in at from is that was as

Word family

laughters

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