Definition of LAUGHTER

laughter

Plural: laughters

Noun

  • The sound or act of laughing; amusement.
  • the sound of laughing
  • the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn
    • "he enjoyed the laughter of the crowd"
  • The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
  • A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
  • A reason for merriment.

Examples

  • A burst of LAUGHTER filled the room when the novice player spelled ’CAT’ on a triple-word score.
  • Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English laughter, laghter, laȝter, from Old English hleahtor (“laughter, jubilation, derision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz (“laughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *klek-, *kleg- (“to shout”). Cognate with German Gelächter (“laughter, hilarity, merriment”), Danish and Norwegian latter (“laughter”), Icelandic hlátur (“laughter”). More at laugh.

Synonyms

laugh, laughter

Scrabble Score: 12

laughter: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
laughter: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
laughter: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

laughter: valid Words With Friends Word