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Definition

full of happiness and joy — typically because of some triumph or success

Her jubilant teammates mobbed her and lifted her into the air.

jubilant = full of happiness and joy

He discovered nothing; and she went home jubilant, and dropped all concern about the matter permanently out of her mind.
Twain, Mark -- Pudd'n'head Wilson
Jem picked up a rock and threw it jubilantly at the carhouse.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

jubilantly = joyfully

He had expected to hear cheer of triumph and jubilation at his death,
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

jubilation = high-spirited delight

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

The Cadillac arrived, and the jubilant minister decided to take the gas guzzler for a spin.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

jubilant = full of high-spirited delight

But he knew his days at Trinity would be numbered if he walked into that group of jubilant guys and told them to erase the fifty beside his name.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War

jubilant = high-spirited and delighted

I felt their arms around my neck, their hugs and the marvelous jubilation of reunion.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me

jubilation = high-spirited delight

"That's six days from now," he said in a jubilant voice.
Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows

jubilant = full of high-spirited delight

(Throwing back her head with jubilance) Praise God!
Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun

jubilance = happiness and joy

But although Tom's ear tingled, his heart was jubilant.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

jubilant = full of high-spirited delight

Father was jubilant, but Ernest was alarmed.
London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
Pollyanna's jubilant voice turned to one of distressed appeal.
Porter, Eleanor H. -- Pollyanna
The plot was ripe for execution, and one of the conspirators was merry and jubilant, while the other was very nervous and troubled.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Beyond the City
The Professor smiled, and looked quite jubilant.
Stoker, Bram -- Dracula
—they were everywhere; they swept back and forth across the river constantly, and their jubilant music was never stilled.
Twain, Mark -- A Tramp Abroad
It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
I remember how jubilant Markham was at securing a new photograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days.
Wells, H.G. -- The War Of The Worlds
The robins were singing vespers in the high treetops, filling the golden air with their jubilant voices.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne of The Island
The backers of Cherokee waxed jubilant and offered ridiculous odds.
London, Jack -- White Fang
We were all jubilant.
London, Jack -- Tales of the Fish Patrol

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