MEANING
Great joy, especially at a success, together with its outward celebration.
Use it for
describing joy after an uncertain outcome; showing shared celebration rather than private contentment; contrasting a crowd’s happiness with one person’s different reactionExpresses triumphant or celebratory joy, particularly the relief of a long-awaited success becoming public. Writing functions: Joy / Celebration.
Words that belong together
- scenes of jubilation
- cries of jubilation
- widespread jubilation
On the page
The announcement released a jubilation that made the square seem suddenly too small.
Amid the jubilation, she folded the telegram and asked who would tell the families still waiting.
Word forms
- Base
- jubilation
Usage notes
Normally uncountable: jubilation. A scene or cry of jubilation gives a countable frame; no routine plural is needed for the feeling. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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