Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or condition of rejoicing greatly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; great gladness; triumphant delight; triumph.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the utterance of sounds expressing great joy
- n. a feeling of extreme joy
Examples
“A paw pumped the air in exultation as the red-nosed leader became swiss-cheese venison.”
“In a third he punched the air in exultation as the final curtain fell, although there was no curtain, there was no possibility of a curtain.”
“Thompson's arms and later was lifted in exultation by teammates.”
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“She, too, reflecting on what she had won, said in exultation:”
“Her story is also similar to that of Sister Tissā. 108 And it was the 'Glory-verse' through which she won Arahantship that she declaimed in exultation:”
“But she discoursed in exultation on what both of them had said, as follows:”
“And reflecting on her victory, she broke forth in exultation:”
“Reflecting on her attainment, she uttered these verses in exultation:”
“At this crisis the women and followers of the Scottish camp, hearing such triumphant exclamations from their friends, impatiently quitted their station behind the hill and ran to the summit, waving their scarfs and plaids in exultation of the supposed victory.”
“Nature, like a proud conqueror, appeared to have put on a triumphal garb, in exultation of the devastation she had committed the night before.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘exultation’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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words 1
Traduce, Ramify, precipitous, rapture, adumbrate, knell, smolder, vagary, choleric, sibylline, hypocritical, jejune and 135 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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FYI
deus ex machina, cantatrice, tartarean, fowl, fodder, bridle, glut, exultation, remuneration, satiation, allotropy, chthonic and 4 more...
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Happy, happy, joy, joy.
Feel good words.
great pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, triumph, exultation, rejoicing, happiness, gladness, exhilaration, exuberance, bliss, felicity and 95 more...
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Barron's 1100 words you need to know ...
adamant, ardent, array, bereft, besmirch, constrict, culminate, egotist, exultation, falter, humility, invective and 8 more...
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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english
gullet, boon, vixen, squalor, mire, revelry, levy, embossed, revulsion, vanquish, snivel, milksop and 84 more...
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eudoxia's Words
trajectory, albeit, surinam, parseval, heraklit, granular, ostensibly, doctor zhivago, takoradi, octothorpe, herr mannelig, adenosine and 58 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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hard words
elided, ephemerally, erudite, shrewd, embers, tharted, elision, junket, impeachment, exultation, eyrie, preen and 34 more...
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Murders of crows
murder, scandal, herd, gaggle, bevy, nuisance, yoke, raft, ostentation, school, cote, shoal and 31 more...
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favourite words from grade 8
so digging through my old stuff I found this list titled Hippopotomonstrosensquippedaliaphilia.
some of these words now seem embarassingly everyday, but I remember how excited I was, hearing ...exploit, bereft, purloin, usurp, sombre, derelict, quiescence, vestiges, nostalgia, lustrous, obstinate, enigma and 36 more...
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