laugh

CEFRA1

/lɐːf/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To make a happy sound because something is funny or pleasing.

  2. 02

    noun

    The sound or action made when someone laughs.

Examples

  • A teacher should never laugh at his students' mistakes.

  • Laugh as much as you like; I'll stick to my plan to the bitter end.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /laf/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. A fun person.

  2. Something that provokes mirth or scorn.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

More examples

In context

  • You may laugh at me.

  • His deep laughs boomed through the room.

  • Your new hat's an absolute laugh, dude.

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Antonyms

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Origin

verb

From Middle English laughen, laghen, from (Anglian) Old English hlæhhan, hlehhan, (West Saxon) hliehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną. Cognates Germanic: Scots lauch (“to laugh”), Yola leeigh, leigh (“to laugh”), North Frisian laache, lachi, laake, loache, lååke (“to laugh”), Saterland Frisian laachje (“to laugh”), West Frisian laitsje (“to laugh”), Alemannic German lache (“to laugh”), Cimbrian lachan (“to laugh”), Dutch, German, and Low German lachen (“to laugh”), Luxembourgish laachen (“to laugh”), Yiddish לאַכן (lakhn, “to laugh”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish le (“to laugh”), Elfdalian läa (“to laugh”), Faroese læa (“to la...