Usually means: Cheerful and lively in mood.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word merry:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. merry: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. merry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. merry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. merry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. merry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Merry, merry: Wordnik
  7. merry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Merry, merry: Wiktionary
  9. merry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. merry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. merry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Merry, merry: Dictionary.com
  13. merry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. merry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Merry (Japanese band), Merry (band), Merry (song), Merry (surname), Merry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Merry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. merry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. merry: Rhymezone
  19. Merry: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. merry: Free Dictionary
  21. merry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. merry: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. merry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. merry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  25. merry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. merry: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. merry: Idioms

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

(Note: See merrier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.
adjective:  Festive and full of fun and laughter.
adjective:  Brisk
adjective:  Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
adjective:  (euphemistic) drunk; tipsy
noun:  An English wild cherry.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a merry person.
noun:  A female given name from English from the adjective, also a diminutive of Mercy.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Meredith.

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