[
UK
/tʃˈiə/
]
[ US /ˈtʃɪɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɪɹ/ ]
VERB
- become cheerful
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cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful
She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee -
show approval or good wishes by shouting
everybody cheered the birthday boy - give encouragement to
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spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
NOUN
- a cry or shout of approval
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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.