riant, laughing(a)
(adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness; “laughing children”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
riant (comparative more riant, superlative most riant)
When said of a person or a person's manner: mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted.
When said of place, landscape or view: having a pleasant appearance, looking bright or cheerful.
• Tarin, Tiran, Train, Trina, atrin, intra-, tairn, tarin, train
Source: Wiktionary
Ri`ant", a. Etym: [F. riant, p. pr. of rire to laugh, L. ridere.]
Definition: Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape. In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
