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Definition of 'humour' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) temper, mood, humor, humour
a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
"whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"

2. (noun) wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

3. (noun) humor, humour
(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
"the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"

4. (noun) liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour
the liquid parts of the body

5. (noun) humor, humour
the quality of being funny
"I fail to see the humor in it"

6. (verb) humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humour
the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
"she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"

7. (verb) humor, humour
put into a good mood


Definition of 'humour' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) humour
***humor


Definitions of 'humour' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  humour
distinct from wit, and defined as "a warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all that exists," as "the sport of sensibility and, as it were, the playful, teasing fondness of a mother for a child" ... as "a sort of inverse sublimity exalting into our affections what is below us,... warm and all-embracing as the sun."


Translation of 'humour' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the ability to amuse people; quickness to spot a joke
He has a great sense of humour.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: humor Arabic flag Arabic: مِزاج مَرِح، ظَرافه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: хумор
Brazilian flag Brazilian: humor Czech flag Czech: humor German flag German: der Humor
Danish flag Danish: humor Greek flag Greek: χιούμορ Spanish flag Spanish: humor
Estonian flag Estonian: naljasoon Farsi flag Farsi: شوخ طبعی Finnish flag Finnish: huumori
French flag French: humour Hebrew flag Hebrew: הוּמוֹר Hindi flag Hindi: हास्यवृत्ति
Croatian flag Croatian: raspoloženje, humor Hungarian flag Hungarian: humor Indonesian flag Indonesian: kemampuan menyenangkan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: skopskyn, kímnigáfa Italian flag Italian: umorismo Japanese flag Japanese: ユーモア
Korean flag Korean: 유머, 익살 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: humoras Latvian flag Latvian: humors
Malay flag Malay: rasa lucu Dutch flag Dutch: humor Norwegian flag Norwegian: humor
Polish flag Polish: humor Persian flag Persian: شوخ طبعی Pashto flag Pashto: طبیعی شوخی
Portuguese flag Portuguese: humor Romanian flag Romanian: umor Russian flag Russian: чувство юмора
Slovak flag Slovak: humor Slovenian flag Slovenian: humor Serbian flag Serbian: humor
Swedish flag Swedish: humor, skämtlynne Thai flag Thai: อารมณ์ขัน Turkish flag Turkish: mizah yeteneği
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 幽默 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: гумор Urdu flag Urdu: مزاح
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: biết đùa Chinese flag Chinese: 幽默

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'humour' - Nearby Entries  

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