Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.
Spenser.
The roofs with joy resound.
Dryden.
Joy is used in composition, esp. with participles, to from many
self-explaining compounds; as, joy-bells, joy-bringing, joy-inspiring,
joy-resounding, etc.
Syn. -- Gladness; pleasure; delight; happiness; exultation; transport;
felicity; ecstasy; rapture; bliss; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity;
hilarity.
Joy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Joyed (joid); p. pr. & vb. n. Joying.] [OF.
joir, F. jouir. See Joy, n.] To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to
exult.