merriment
noun
mer·ri·ment
ˈmer-i-mənt 
ˈme-ri-
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Examples of merriment in a Sentence
a time of great joy and merriment
Their house was always filled with merriment.
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Jackie Fields, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Music, merriment, light and color fill the streets.
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Jackie Fields, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Music, merriment, light and color fill the streets.
—Matt Ralphs, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
Sometimes, though, Harris’s various shades of mirth simply add ironic merriment to proceedings that otherwise slog along.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2024
Power outages, supply shortages, and monster attacks cut the merriment short, but Anx and Cass are an adequate team for a while.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Merriment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/merriment. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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merriment
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mer·ri·ment
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