[ UK /ɡˈe‍ɪəti/ ]
NOUN
  1. a gay feeling
  2. a festive merry feeling
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How To Use gaiety In A Sentence

  • They rallied me with a good deal of gaiety on different subjects, particularly upon the whiteness of my skin and the prominency of my nose. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7
  • Fontaine has prettily set it off, and an anonymous writer has composed it in Latin Anacreontic verses; and at length our Prior has given it with equal gaiety and freedom. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
  • The colourful flags added to the gaiety of the occasion.
  • His own farces and burlesques have faded into obscurity, but this contributor to the ‘gaiety of nations' lies buried in Westminster abbey.
  • Village fairs were occasions for happiness and gaiety.
  • Paterfamilias is obliged to drink the cup of gaiety to the dregs, which is almost worse than being in office. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
  • The gaiety with which they had set out had somehow vanished; and yet there was no enmity or malice between them.
  • If red roses are arranged with yellow roses or blossoms contain both red and yellow coloration, they express gaiety, joviality and happiness.
  • The colourful flags added to the gaiety of the occasion.
  • But it is impossible by words to convey any idea of the effect of his conversation, and of the impression made by so much philosophy, gaiety and humour, accompanied by a manner at once so animated and simple.
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