Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of joy.

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Examples

  • The French call it joie d 'vivre, and it was Sigmund's definition of success: "satisfaction in work and in love."

    Penelope Andrew: NYC Psychoanalytic Society Hosts Artist Jane McAdam Freud: The Edge of Analysis, Art and Politics 2009

  • There is certain "joie de vivre" in our province that has been given a tremendous boost in the past week.

    My Canada - Today and Tomorrow 2005

  • I did keep coming back to what they called joie de vivre, wondering if there wasn’t something for me to learn and something for me to imitate and accept.

    Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000

  • I did keep coming back to what they called joie de vivre, wondering if there wasn’t something for me to learn and something for me to imitate and accept.

    Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000

  • I did keep coming back to what they called joie de vivre, wondering if there wasn’t something for me to learn and something for me to imitate and accept.

    Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000

  • I did keep coming back to what they called joie de vivre, wondering if there wasn’t something for me to learn and something for me to imitate and accept.

    Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000

  • I suppose it's what the French would call joie de vivre.

    On loving Spain, Madrid but not Oates uknaija 2005

  • But I did have what you French would call joie de vivre, I was fun.

    Bono On Bono Assayas, Michka 2005

  • I suppose it's what the French would call joie de vivre.

    Archive 2005-11-01 uknaija 2005

  • I have written this book because, in my business, I see a constant flow of Americans looking for that thing that the French call joie de vivre.

    JOIE DE VIVRE ROBERT ARBOR 2003

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  • As in "de vivre"!

    April 13, 2007