[
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
- Mum has been a lot more cheerful since Quigley was declared bankrupt, insane and guilty of fraud.
- They were energetic, bright eyed, and cheerful.
- A UT cheerleader named Harley Clark syllogized: A & M has a hand sign, A & M is winning, UT has no hand sign, therefore UT is losing.
- She gave me a cheerful grin and rattled off her past employers, accompanied by a brief biodata, both seemingly satisfying.
- Cheerful competition between strongmen is harmless enough in times of peace. Times, Sunday Times
- A year later, in ‘L' Allegro ’, the delphic element had disappeared, and Milton's cheerful man heard ‘Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child Warble his native woodnotes wild’.
- The cheerful room was panelled in pine.
