English Dictionary

joy

/d͡ʒɔɪ/

verb

(intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice. / (transitive, archaic) To enjoy. / (transitive, obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate. / (transitive, obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

She joyfully danced around the room.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice.

for oftymes or this oure lord shewed hym vnto good men and vnto good knyghtes in lykenes of an herte But I suppose from hens forth ye shalle see no more / and thenne they Ioyed moche / and dwelled ther alle that day / And vpon the morowe whan they had herde masse / they departed and commaunded the good man to god

意味（2）

(transitive, archaic) To enjoy.

I haue my wish, in that I ioy thy sight,

意味（3）

(transitive, obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.

Then round our Death-bed ev'ry Friend ſhou'd run, / And joy us of our Conqueſt, early won: […]

意味（4）

(transitive, obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

Yet neither pleasure’s art can joy my spirits,

Yet neither pleasure’s art can joy my spirits, Nor yet the other’s distance comfort me.