[
UK
/mˈɛɹɪmənt/
]
NOUN
- a gay feeling
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activities that are enjoyable or amusing
he is fun to have around
I do it for the fun of it
How To Use merriment In A Sentence
- A brief program with music and merriment begins the ceremony, then an honorary candlelighter lights his or her candle and starts passing it along through the crowd. Zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News
- In this land where the girl, Tana is her name, brought me, it is unceasing merriment and joy.
- He grinned; just another good-hearted carouser stretching a night of harmless merriment into the new day. Survived another workshop!
- He clearly didn't understand the demographics of our house at all, and I think he mistook our new-to-Berkeley enthusiasm as antidisestablishmentarian merriment.
- One of them appeared very awkward and bunglesome and his failure produced much merriment. The story of my life, or, More than a half century as I have lived it and seen it lived,
- Bells you gave me, bells of victory, bells of merriment, yellow and green; cloches clashing, swaggering braggarts, helmets agleam coppery red.
- There's a kind of staidness and a kind of fear, I suppose, of playfulness, of merriment, of the colloquial and the demotic.
- Merry and Pippin develop strongly, as they do in the book, but still hold their mirth and merriment.
- As for who is "rolling their eyes" for Joanie's merriment..who can say? The Chimes at Midnight
- The ladies are occupied in conversation and merriment, and amused with the native songs and music of the dominie, smoking the hookha, eating pawn, dinner, &c. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society