笑 — meaning in English

English meaning

• laugh verb To make the sound and facial movements that show amusement or delight.
• laughter noun The sound or act of laughing.
• roar verb To make a loud, deep sound, as from anger, pain, or excitement, or as a large animal does.

Senses

笑 is used for these senses in English:

• have a laugh To laugh.
• laugh An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
• laugh (intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
• laughter A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, 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.
• roar To laugh in a particularly loud manner.

laugh — full definition

1. verb To make the sound and facial movements that show amusement or delight.
2. noun The act or sound of laughing.
3. noun Something that causes amusement; a source of fun.

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