Definitions for Merry

Merry mer·ry

Spelling: [mer-ee]
IPA: /ˈmɛr i/

Merry is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Merry (emrry).

Definitions for Merry

noun

  1. a female given name.

Idioms

  1. make merry, to be happy or festive: to make fun of; ridicule:

adjective

  1. full of cheerfulness or gaiety; joyous in disposition or spirit:
  2. laughingly happy; mirthful; festively joyous; hilarious:
  3. Archaic. causing happiness; pleasant; delightful.

Origin of Merry

before 900; Middle English meri(e), myrie, murie, Old English myr(i)ge, mer(i)ge pleasant, delightful

Examples for Merry

In his last tweet, he wished his followers a “merry Christmas.”

Bohac said the bill does not require anyone to say “merry Christmas” if they are not up for it.

Christmas was a merry day to all but the major, who did not like the engagement any better than before.

But asked if he would say “merry Christmas” to someone who he knew did not celebrate the holiday, he paused for several seconds.

Deck your halls instead with boughs of holly, shouting “merry Christmas” (or “Happy Hanukkah”) well into the night.

Because we all grew up initially thinking it was “God Rest Ye, merry Gentlemen.”

Now and then, he laughed in a merry way, as if he were bantering her out of something.

His aunt, the Duchess of Savoy, is a merry dame, and a wise!

He raised his flagon and drank to him, with a merry flash of his white teeth.

Saffy came and went, by no means so merry now that she was more with Corney.

Word Value for Merry
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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