Usually means: Express joy through vocal sounds.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. laugh: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. laugh, laugh: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. laugh: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. laugh: Collins English Dictionary
  5. laugh: Vocabulary.com
  6. Laugh, laugh: Wordnik
  7. laugh: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. laugh: Wiktionary
  9. laugh: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. laugh: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. laugh: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Laugh, laugh: Dictionary.com
  13. laugh (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. laugh: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Laugh (Keller Williams album), Laugh (Terry Hall album), Laugh (disambiguation), Laugh: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Laugh: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. laugh: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. laugh: Rhymezone
  19. laugh: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. laugh: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. laugh: Free Dictionary
  22. laugh: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. laugh: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. laugh: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. laugh: Legal dictionary

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  1. laugh: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. laugh: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. laugh: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. laugh, laugh: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See laughed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
noun:  Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
noun:  (British, New Zealand) A fun person.
verb:  (intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
verb:  (intransitive, followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
verb:  (transitive) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
verb:  (transitive) To express by, or utter with, laughter.

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