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jubilant

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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
    (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.)
  • "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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