Synonyms:
exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant
Meaning: joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
rejoicing
Meaning: a feeling of great happiness
Usage examples
The arrival of the steamer at Fort Garry (Winnipeg) was celebrated with great rejoicing.
Rejoicing in the power of my steed and in the pride of my life, I sat like a king and rode.
Then they mounted again and, surrounded by the army of the apes who were rejoicing in their victory, returned to the castle.
He was jealous--bitterly so; but he forced himself to join the cheering crowd and to make a half-hearted pretense of rejoicing.
The palace was illuminated from top to bottom and from end to end; the windows shone like crystal, and from it came sounds of music and rejoicing.
Were all the village bells to be mute because Tribulation Wholesome and Deacon Ananias thought them profane? Was Christmas no longer to be a day of rejoicing?
In the morning she was safe, and great was the rejoicing; but for two days the little invalid was not allowed to continue the journey, much as they longed to hurry on.
About this time Genji returned, but for some while she heard nothing from him, and only the public rejoicing of many people, and the news about him from the outside world reached her ears.
Then Thetis and her nymphs sank down to their gardens of green and purple, where live flowers of bloom all the year round; while the heroes went on rejoicing, yet dreading what might come next.
They came into the studio, rejoicing, to be welcomed over effusively by a drawn, lined, shrunken, haggard wreck,--unshaven, blue-white about the nostrils, stooping in the shoulders, and peering under his eyebrows nervously.