gaiety

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being happy or merry. dated,uncountable
    — There was much gaiety at the ball.
  2. Merrymaking or festivity. countable,dated
    — And he would tell her all sorts of wonders, old-world gaieties, long before she was born; and how finely the great Mr. [George Frideric] Handel played upon the harpischord^([sic]) in the Music Hall, and how his talk was in German, Latin, French, English, Italian, and half-a-dozen languages beside, […]

词形变化

gaieties plural

词源

Borrowed from Middle French gaieté, from gai. By surface analysis, gay + -ety.
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