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/dʒˈɒkʌnd/
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ADJECTIVE
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full of or showing high-spirited merriment
a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company
when hearts were young and gay
jolly old Saint Nick
have a merry Christmas
peals of merry laughter
the jolly crowd at the reunion
a mirthful laugh
a jovial old gentleman
How To Use jocund In A Sentence
- their hearts were jocund and sublime
- a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company
- Now August came, that florid lazy month when mid-summer dawdles along in trailing greeneries, and the day is like some jocund pagan, all flushed and asleep, with dripping beard rosy in a wine bowl of fat vine leaves. Gentle Julia
- But as I approached, so the branches beneath which they played gradually disparted, and I saw not far distant from them one sitting who evidently had these jocund boys in charge. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance
- Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept The Parisians — Complete
- July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
- ‘Sit in the Sun’ and ‘By the Cathedral’ tug at opposing emotions, at once jocund and unsettling.
- A poet could not but be gay in such a jocund company.
- July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
- Accordingly, take in perfect part all I write and do; revere the cheese-shaped brain which feeds you this noble flummery; strive diligently to keep me ever jocund.
