Gadit

rejoice

Definitions (2)
1verbTo feel great joy or happiness.
They rejoiced when they heard the good news.
Fans rejoiced after the team won the championship.
She rejoiced at the chance to see her family again.
2verbTo celebrate or show happiness openly.
The whole town rejoiced in the streets.
People rejoiced together after the long war ended.
The crowd rejoiced with songs and dancing.
Idioms & expressions
rejoice in, To take pleasure in something or feel glad because of it.
rejoice over, To feel very happy about a result or event.
rejoice together, To celebrate happily with other people.
cause someone to rejoice, To make someone feel glad.
rejoice at someone’s success, To feel happy because another person did well.
rejoice in the moment, To enjoy the happiness of what is happening right now.
Word Origin
Language
Old French
Original word
rejoir
Word parts
re- (intensive, strongly) + joir (to be glad)
Originally meant
From Old French rejoir, literally 'to gladden greatly, give joy again,' built from re- 'again, back, intensively' + joir 'be glad,' from Latin gaudere 'to rejoice'; the word passed into Middle English from Anglo-French.
Background
It appears in Middle English in the 13th century, first often in the transitive sense 'make glad.' It is related to Old French joie and ultimately to Latin gaudium 'joy' and gaudere 'be glad.'
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