笑い — meaning in English

English meaning

• humour noun (UK) The quality of being funny, or the ability to find things funny.
• laugh verb To make the sound and facial movements that show amusement or delight.
• laughter noun The sound or act of laughing.
• mirth noun Cheerful laughter and merriment.

Senses

笑い is used for these senses in English:

• 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.
• mirth That which causes merriment.

humour — full definition

1. noun (UK) The quality of being funny, or the ability to find things funny.
2. noun (UK) A person's mood or temporary state of mind.
3. verb (UK) To go along with someone's wishes to keep them happy, even if you disagree.

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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