Usually means: Intense feeling of happiness and contentment.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word joy:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. joy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. joy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. joy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. joy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. joy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Joy, joy: Wordnik
  7. joy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Joy, joy: Wiktionary
  9. joy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. joy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. joy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Joy, joy: Dictionary.com
  13. joy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. joy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Joy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. joy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. joy: Rhymezone
  19. joy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. joy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Joy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. joy: Free Dictionary
  23. joy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Joy, joy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. joy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. joy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. joy: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Joy: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Joy (disambiguation), Joy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. JOY: Acronym Finder
  4. JOY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. joy: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. joy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Joy: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Joy, The Joy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
noun:  Anything that causes such a feeling.
noun:  Luck or success; a positive outcome.
noun:  (obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
verb:  (intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To enjoy.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
noun:  A female given name from English.
noun:  A surname.

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