Definitions for laughter

laughter laugh·ter

Spelling: [laf-ter, lahf-]
IPA: /ˈlæf tər, ˈlɑf-/

Laughter is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 334 anagrams from letters in laughter (aeghlrtu).

Definitions for laughter

noun

  1. the action or sound of laughing.
  2. an inner quality, mood, disposition, etc., suggestive of laughter; mirthfulness:
  3. an expression or appearance of merriment or amusement.
  4. Archaic. an object of laughter; subject or matter for amusement.

Origin of laughter

before 900; Middle English; Old English hleahtor; cognate with Old High German hlahtar, Old Norse hlātr; see laugh

Examples for laughter

The supposition was greeted with a great burst of laughter from Cornelius.

The laughter at this sally was all it should have been, even the host joining in it.

The laughter and talk were as little subdued as the scheme of the rooms.

“Robin had us blubbing with laughter all the way through one dinner,” Gilkes recalls.

She never heard the end of the story, but was roused by the laughter that followed it.

“I think that all you ni**ers need to…check yourselves out,” he said to laughter in his first big applause line of the evening.

May their married life have laughter, and that they love one another forever after!

Under the Sun King, such humor—and the laughter associated with it—was seen as more suitable for the masses.

If laughter is the best medicine, The Comeback made you feel enough pain to need a dose—and then it delivered in spades.

Cornelius was in fits of laughter, which he scarcely tried to choke.

Word Value for laughter
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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