gaiety, playfulness
(noun) a festive merry feeling
gaiety, merriment
(noun) a gay feeling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gaiety (countable and uncountable, plural gaieties)
(dated, uncountable) The state of being happy or merry.
(dated, countable) Merrymaking or festivity.
• (state of being happy): gayness
Source: Wiktionary
Gai"e*ty, n.
Definition: Same as Gayety.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.