laughter
the sound of laughing
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,315 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,899 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the sound of laughing also: laugh
- the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn he enjoyed the laughter of the crowd
laughter in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But he interrupted her with a wild burst of laughter.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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The face of the small, neat person bubbled with soft laughter.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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Her wonder and his laughter ran together like spring rills in a thaw.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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XLI But now no sound of laughter 340 Was heard among the foes.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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Did light girl laughter ripple through the bushes, As brooks make merry over roots and rushes?
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1