jubilant

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ju·bi·lant

(jo͞o′bə-lənt)

adj.

1. Exultingly joyful.

2. Expressing joy.

[Latin iūbilāns, iūbilant-, present participle of iūbilāre, to raise a shout of joy.]

ju′bi·lance n.

ju′bi·lant·ly adv.

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jubilant

(ˈdʒuːbɪlənt)

adj

feeling or expressing great joy

[C17: from Latin jūbilāns shouting for joy, from jūbilāre to give a joyful cry, from jūbilum a shout, wild cry]

ˈjubilance, ˈjubilancy n

ˈjubilantly adv

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ju•bi•lant

(ˈdʒu bə lənt)

adj.

showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; exultant.

[1660–70; < Latin jūbilant-, s. of jūbilāns, present participle of jūbilāre to shout, whoop]

ju′bi•lance, n.

ju′bi•lant•ly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	jubilant - joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" exultant, exulting, rejoicing, triumphant, triumphal, prideful elated - exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits; "the elated winner"; "felt elated and excited"
	2.	jubilant - full of high-spirited delight; "a joyful heart" gleeful, joyful, elated joyous - full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter"

jubilant

adjective overjoyed, excited, thrilled, glad, triumphant, rejoicing, exuberant, joyous, elated, over the moon (informal), euphoric, triumphal, enraptured, exultant, cock-a-hoop, rhapsodic He was jubilant after making an impressive comeback.
sad, melancholy, despondent, downcast, sorrowful, doleful

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jubilant

adjective

Feeling or expressing an uplifting joy over a success or victory:

exultant, triumphant.

Translations

مُتَهَلِّل، مُبْتَهِج

jásající

jublende

jubelnd

jubilant

örvendező

fagnandi

esultante giubilo

gavilējošs

gledestrålende

sevinçten uçan

兴高采烈的喜悦的

jubilant

[ˈdʒuːbɪlənt] ADJ [crowd] → jubiloso, exultante; [cry, shout] → de júbilo, alborozado

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jubilant

[ˈdʒuːbɪlənt] adj

[supporters, crowds] → débordant(e) de joie, réjoui(e)
to be jubilant → jubiler

[scene, mood] → réjouissant(e)

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jubilant

adj → überglücklich; (= expressing joy) → jubelnd attr; voice → jubelnd attr, → frohlockend attr; face → strahlend attr; (at sb’s failure etc) → triumphierend attr; they gave him a jubilant welcome → sie empfingen ihn mit Jubel; to be jubilant → überglücklich sein, jubeln, strahlen, triumphieren

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jubilant

[ˈdʒuːbɪlənt] adj → giubilante
to be jubilant → essere esultante

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jubilant

(ˈdʒuːbilənt) adjective

showing and expressing triumphant joy. Jubilant crowds welcomed the victorious team home.

ˈjubilantly adverb

ˌjubiˈlation (-ˈlei-) noun

(sometimes in plural) (triumphant) rejoicing. There was great jubilation over the victory; The jubilations went on till midnight.

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And the birds!--they were everywhere; they swept back and forth across the river constantly, and their jubilant music was never stilled.

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He lost two of his small nibs quickly, and Singer was jubilant, but the third time by some chance the Jumbo slipped round and Philip was able to push his J across it.

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Anne heard it and thrilled to it; Gilbert heard it, and wondered only that all the birds in the world had not burst into jubilant song; Paul heard it and later wrote a lyric about it which was one of the most admired in his first volume of verse; Charlotta the Fourth heard it and was blissfully sure it meant good luck for her adored Miss Shirley.

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A new strain of music, loud and jubilant, rose from the hidden shrine.

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His friend, jubilant and glori- fied, holding his treasure with vanity, came to him there.

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He discovered nothing; and she went home jubilant, and dropped all concern about the matter permanently out of her mind.

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I remember how jubilant Markham was at securing a new photograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days.

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He was the only man who was not out of his bunk, and he was jubilant in that he possessed no bruises to advertise that he had had a hand in the night's work.

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"No, no--please, Aunt Polly!" Pollyanna's jubilant voice turned to one of distressed appeal.

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Miss Wilson, who had been conferring with the housekeeper, cut his speech short by ordering him to carry his wife to bed, which he did with the assistance of Smilash, now jubilant. Whilst they were away, one of the servants, bidden to bring some blankets to the woman's room, refused,saying that she was not going to wait on that sort of people.

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While Sancho fared thus, Don Quixote was watching the entrance, at one end of the arcade, of some twelve peasants, all in holiday and gala dress, mounted on twelve beautiful mares with rich handsome field trappings and a number of little bells attached to their petrals, who, marshalled in regular order, ran not one but several courses over the meadow, with jubilant shouts and cries of "Long live Camacho and Quiteria!