笑う — meaning in English

English meaning

• laugh verb To make the sound and facial movements that show amusement or delight.
• smile noun A facial expression made by curving the mouth upward, usually showing happiness or friendliness.

Senses

笑う 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.
• smile (ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.

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.

smile — full definition

1. noun A facial expression made by curving the mouth upward, usually showing happiness or friendliness.
2. verb To make this expression.

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