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UK
/dʒˈɒkʌnd/
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ADJECTIVE
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full of or showing high-spirited merriment
a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company
when hearts were young and gay
jolly old Saint Nick
have a merry Christmas
peals of merry laughter
the jolly crowd at the reunion
a mirthful laugh
a jovial old gentleman
How To Use jocund In A Sentence
- their hearts were jocund and sublime
- a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company
- Now August came, that florid lazy month when mid-summer dawdles along in trailing greeneries, and the day is like some jocund pagan, all flushed and asleep, with dripping beard rosy in a wine bowl of fat vine leaves. Gentle Julia
- July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
- Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept The Parisians — Complete
- And I felt that if I was this happy in life, my life would be permanently happy and jocund.
- July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
- He was always jocund and grinning, while I always just stare in annoyance.
- He is likewise declared innocent of the case privileged from the knapdardies, into the danger whereof it was thought he had incurred; because he could not jocundly and with fulness of freedom untruss and dung, by the decision of a pair of gloves perfumed with the scent of bum-gunshot at the walnut-tree taper, as is usual in his country of Mirebalais. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- I remember the advice given by the make-up artist François from Elizabeth Arden: ‘The jocund mouth gives the true chic.’
