Definition of Humour in English :

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Humour

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Noun

1. humor, humour, mood, temper

a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

Example Sentences:
'whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time'
'he was in a bad humor'

2. humor, humour, wit, witticism, wittiness

a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

3. humor, humour

(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state

Example Sentences:
'the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile'

5. humor, humour

the quality of being funny

Example Sentences:
'I fail to see the humor in it'

6. humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humour

the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous

Example Sentences:
'she didn't appreciate my humor'
'you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor'

Verb

7. humor, humour

put into a good mood

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Humour

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noun
1. 
the quality of being funny
2. Also called: sense of humour
the ability to appreciate or express that which is humorous
3. 
situations, speech, or writings that are thought to be humorous
4. 
a. 
a state of mind; temper; mood
b. 
(in combination)
ill humour
good humour
5. 
temperament or disposition
6. 
a caprice or whim
7. 
any of various fluids in the body, esp the aqueous humour and vitreous humour
8. Also called: cardinal humour archaic
any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
9.  out of humour
verb (transitive)
10. 
to attempt to gratify; indulge
he humoured the boy's whims
11. 
to adapt oneself to
to humour someone's fantasies

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Humour

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noun, verb transitive
British
humor

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Humour

see synonyms of humour
n. & v.
Chiefly British
Variant of humor.

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