Associations to the word «Laughter»

Pictures for the word «Laughter»

Wiktionary

LAUGHTER, noun. The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
LAUGHTER, noun. 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.
LAUGHTER, noun. (archaic) A reason for merriment.
LAUGHTER LINES, noun. Wrinkles at the outer corners of the eye.

Dictionary definition

LAUGHTER, noun. The sound of laughing.
LAUGHTER, noun. The activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn; "he enjoyed the laughter of the crowd".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats