laughter
IPA: ɫˈæftɝ
noun
- The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
- A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
- (archaic) A reason for merriment.
- A surname.
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Examples of "laughter" in Sentences
- The laughter isn't clearly John's.
- The statement was followed by uproarious laughter.
- Laughter improves the health and changes the attitude.
- Her laughter is a part of the context of the controversy.
- His laughter was said to resemble the call of the peewit.
- There was no laughter, no smiles, and rapt, silent attention.
- Is she perpetually on the verge of raucous, contagious laughter
- In the legend, the statement was followed by uproarious laughter.
- It is in the eyes and laughter and tears and frowns of my students.
- Laughter is anatomically caused by the epiglottis constricting the larynx.
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