An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ELATION
elation, high spirits, lightness
(noun) a feeling of joy and pride
elation
(noun) an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
elation (countable and uncountable, plural elations)
An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.
A feeling of joy and pride.
(geometry) A collineation that fixes all points on a line (called its axis) and all lines though a point on the axis (called its center).
Anagrams
• Oltenia, toenail
Source: Wiktionary
E*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. elatio. See Elate.]
Definition: A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. "Felt the elation of triumph." Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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