Definition of Jubilation

1. Noun. A feeling of extreme joy.

Exact synonyms: Exultation, Jubilance, Jubilancy
Generic synonyms: Joy, Joyfulness, Joyousness
Specialized synonyms: Triumph
Derivative terms: Exult, Jubilant, Jubilant, Jubilate, Jubilant, Jubilant, Jubilate, Jubilate

2. Noun. A joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event.
Exact synonyms: Celebration
Generic synonyms: Affair, Function, Occasion, Social Function, Social Occasion
Derivative terms: Celebrate, Celebrate, Jubilate

3. Noun. The utterance of sounds expressing great joy.
Exact synonyms: Exultation, Rejoicing
Generic synonyms: Utterance, Vocalization
Derivative terms: Exult, Jubilate, Rejoice

Definition of Jubilation

1. n. A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation.

Definition of Jubilation

1. Noun. A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jubilation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jubilation

jubes
jubhah
jubhahs
jubilance
jubilances
jubilancy
jubilant
jubilantly
jubilar
jubilarian
jubilarians
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jubilated
jubilates
jubilating
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jubilations
jubile
jubilee
jubilees
jubilence
jubilent
jubilently
jubiles
juccuya
juco
jucos
jucundities
jucundity
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Literary usage of Jubilation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman (1891)
"SHERMAN'S ARMY'S Jubilation—ITS SUDDEN STOPPAGE. When Sherman's armies, (long after they left Atlanta,) were marching through South and North Carolina—after ..."

2. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"... Big Chair"—His Little Speech—His Wife and Family Behind—The New President— Memories of Another Scene—Grand Jubilation—The Procession—The Curtain Falls. ..."

3. Specimen Days in America by Walt Whitman (1887)
"SHERMAN'S ARMY'S Jubilation—ITS SUDDEN STOPPAGE. When Sherman's armies, (long after they left Atlanta,) were marching through South and North Carolina—after ..."

4. Forty Years at the Post-office by Frederick Ebenezer Baines (1895)
"Jubilation. THE Post-Office, inexhaustible at the desk or on the field of duty, has not always been disposed towards collective festivity. ..."

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