Definition of Laughter

Laugh´ter
n.1.A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, 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. See Laugh, v. i.
The act of laughter, which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.
- Sir T. Browne.
Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter.
- Longfellow.


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Homeric laughter, amusement, belly laugh, boff, boffola, burst of laughter, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chortling, chuckle, convulsion, crow, fit of laughter, frivolity, fun, gales of laughter, giggle, glee, gleefulness, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, high glee, hilariousness, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, laugh, laughing, levity, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, risibility, roar of laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snickering, snigger, sniggering, snort, tee-hee, titter, yuck, yuk-yuk

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