EXULTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exultation mean? 

• EXULTATION (noun)
  The noun EXULTATION has 2 senses:

1. a feeling of extreme joy

2. the utterance of sounds expressing great joy

  Familiarity information: EXULTATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXULTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of extreme joy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

exultation; jubilance; jubilancy; jubilation

Hypernyms ("exultation" is a kind of...):

joy; joyfulness; joyousness (the emotion of great happiness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exultation"):

triumph (the exultation of victory)

Derivation:

exult (feel extreme happiness or elation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The utterance of sounds expressing great joy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

exultation; jubilation; rejoicing

Hypernyms ("exultation" is a kind of...):

utterance; vocalization (the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication)

Derivation:

exult (to express great joy)

 Context examples 

They sprang about, tossing their long, hairy arms in the air and howling with exultation.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend; we entered the hut, the fiend with an air of exultation, I with a heavy heart and depressed spirits.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He checked himself in his exultation to demand, "But is there anything the matter, Janet, that you come to meet me at such an hour? Is there anything wrong?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As he had read pessimism into Omar, so now he read triumph, stinging triumph and exultation, into Swinburne’s lines.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I told you yesterday, cried Mr. Weston with exultation, I told you all that he would be here before the time named.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Lucy was all exultation on being so honorably distinguished; and Miss Steele wanted only to be teazed about Dr.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Miss Dartle, leaning back upon the seat, with a light of exultation in her face, seemed almost to caress the sounds this fellow had uttered.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At the end of the fifth round the odds were four to one, and the west-countrymen were riotous in their exultation.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Had it not been too fiendish, I could have imagined that the gleam of the fanlight showed exultation in his face.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Skiff Miller continued to debate with himself, and Madge stole a glance of exultation to her husband, who looked back warm approval.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)