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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A facial expression characterized by an upward curving of the corners of the mouth and indicating pleasure, amusement, or derision.
  2. n. A pleasant or favorable disposition or aspect.
  3. v. To have or form a smile.
  4. v. To look with favor or approval: Fortune smiled on our efforts.
  5. v. To express cheerful acceptance or equanimity: We smiled at the bad weather and kept going.
  6. v. To express with a smile: Grandmother smiled her consent.
  7. v. To effect or accomplish with or as if with a smile.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To show a change of the features such as characterizes the beginning of a laugh; give such an expression to the face: generally as indicative of pleasure or of slight amusement, but sometimes of depreciation, contempt, pity, or hypocritical complaisance.
  2. To look gay or joyous, or have an appearance such as tends to excite joy; appear propitious or favorable: as, the smiling spring.
  3. To drink in company.
  4. To ferment, as beer, etc.
  5. To express by a smile: as, to smile a welcome; to smile content.
  6. To change or affect (in a specified way) by smiling: with a modifying word or clause added.
  7. To smile at; receive with a smile.
  8. n. An expression of the face like that with which a laugh begins, indicating naturally pleasure, moderate joy, approbation, amusement, or kindliness, but also sometimes amused or supercilious contempt, pity, disdain, hypocritical complaisance, or the like. Compare smirk, simper, and grin.
  9. n. Gay or joyous appearance; an appearance that would naturally be productive of joy: as, the smiles of spring.
  10. n. Favor; countenance; propitiousness: as, the smiles of Providence.
  11. n. A drink, as of spirit, taken in company and when one person treats another; also, the giving of the treat: as, it is my smile.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth while showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety.
  2. v. transitive or (intransitive) To have a smile on one's face

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently.
  2. v. To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.
  3. v. To look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy
  4. v. To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on.
  5. v. To express by a smile
  6. v. rare To affect in a certain way with a smile.
  7. n. The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; -- opposed to frown.
  8. n. A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc.
  9. n. Favor; countenance; propitiousness.
  10. n. Gay or joyous appearance.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
  2. v. express with a smile
  3. n. a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English smilen ("to smile"), of North Germanic origin, from Danish smile ("to smile"), from Old Norse *smīla ("to smile"), from Proto-Germanic *smīlijanan, *smirōnan (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meyə- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”). Cognate with Swedish smila ("to smile"), Middle High German smielen ("to smile"), Old High German smierōn ("to smile"), Old English smerian ("to laugh at"), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"), Latin miror ("to wonder at"). More at smirk. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Middle English smilen, to smile, probably of Scandinavian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Tomorrow imma smile and be happy Ü and imma talk to mary who will also be alone for Valentines Day Imma be on the phone wif her just talking so that we wont be alone * smile* I miss Mary although she seemed like a bad friend but I realize that she needed a friend too I miss her so much and I miss Sergio too. .aww I wanna go back ...”

    fairytears Diary Entry

  • “Alas, I have no dowry to give you, save the blessing of your dear old -- your dear fond, _fond_ father, _ (kisses her forehead) _ But only obey me in this, and Lady Fortune will smile on us all -- smile -- _smile_.”

    Oh! Susannah! A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts

  • “It is beautiful, feels unbelievable and just puts a big ole smile on my face * smile*”

    Babeland's Blog

  • “If it were possible to smile in my present mood, I think I should indulge _one smile_ at the thought of falling in love with a woman who has scarcely had education enough to enable her to write her name, who has been confined to her bed about eighteen months by a rheumatism contracted by too assiduous application to the wash-tub, and who often boasts that she was born, not above forty-five years ago, in an upper story of the mansion at Mount”

    Jane Talbot

  • “And, of course, I couldn’t help but smile with how much of what you said I agreed with *smile*”

    Amp interviewed on a right-wing website

  • “_Conform a smile to lightning_, make a _smile_ imitate _lightning_, and”

    Lives of the Poets, Volume 1

  • “In fact, the smile is a surprisingly persistent motif the literature and mythology of warfare.”

    Pack Up Your Troubles

  • “We think of Brecht: a smile is a kind of indifference to injustice.”

    March « 2010 « Bill Ayers

  • “I have always a smile on my face because, as I always say, the smile is the shortest distance between two people.”

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: Tips to face the crisis from a popcorn street seller

  • “In Iran and I would say in the Middle East, a smile is a sign of courtesy.”

    Israeli TV airs call to father after children killed « Antiwar.com Blog

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  • frogapplause yarb: That jolly chap is Prolagus!!! May 6, 2010

  • yarb He certainly looks like a jolly chap. May 6, 2010

  • frogapplause Who agrees??? May 6, 2010

  • frogapplause A perfect smile!!! May 4, 2010

  • oroboros Long-remembered smile
    So ripe with unspoken words
    Where does it dwell now? Mar 10, 2007

  • mager whats the longest word in the english language?

    smiles. because it has a mile between the first and last letter. Dec 20, 2006

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