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[ UK /t‍ʃˈi‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɪɹ/ ]
VERB
  1. become cheerful
  2. cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful
    She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee
  3. show approval or good wishes by shouting
    everybody cheered the birthday boy
  4. give encouragement to
  5. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
    The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
NOUN
  1. a cry or shout of approval
  2. the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
    flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room

How To Use cheer In A Sentence

  • Some lucky local with an open fire had determined the evening warranted a little extra cheer, more than the central heating could provide, and had lit a small blaze on his hearth.
  • The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.
  • Hurrah!" came from the right, and the cheer was taken up from the left, while _crack, crack, crack_, rifles were being brought well into play. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
  • Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
  • Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.
  • The flag waving was decorous, the cheering polite and the umpire was never once insulted.
  • The nectarean beverage seemed to operate cheerily on the matron's system; and placing her hand on the boy's curly head, she said (like Andromache, Paul Clifford — Volume 01
  • With drink and festive cheer in excess, it's easy to throw caution to the wind and find yourself acting recklessly on a Christmas night out.
  • Mum has been a lot more cheerful since Quigley was declared bankrupt, insane and guilty of fraud.
  • They were energetic, bright eyed, and cheerful.
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