Definition

1. Verb:
   • To express great joy or triumph: To show or feel extreme happiness, often through outward expressions like shouting, singing, or cheering.
   • To celebrate a jubilee: To observe or mark a special anniversary or occasion of rejoicing, especially a fiftieth anniversary.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • The fans began to jubilate when their team scored the winning goal in the final seconds.
  • After the announcement of peace, people took to the streets to jubilate.
  • The community will jubilate next year to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the town's founding.

Advanced Usage

• "to jubilate in/over something": To rejoice or exult specifically about a particular event or outcome.
  • It is unseemly to jubilate over a rival's misfortune.
  • The scientists had reason to jubilate in their groundbreaking discovery.

Variants and Related Words

• Jubilation (n): A feeling of great happiness and triumph; joyful celebration.
  • The streets were filled with jubilation after the victory.
• Jubilant (adj): Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph.
  • The jubilant crowd cheered for hours.
• Jubilee (n): A special anniversary of an event, especially one celebrating twenty-five or fifty years.
  • The diamond jubilee marked 60 years of the queen's reign.

Synonyms

• Exult: To show or feel elation or jubilation, especially as the result of a success.
• Rejoice: To feel or show great joy or delight.
• Celebrate: To acknowledge a significant or happy day or event with a social gathering or enjoyable activity.

Related Phrases

• "to jubilate and sing": A phrase emphasizing joyful, vocal celebration.
  • The children jubilated and sang, their voices echoing through the park.

Verb

1. to express great joy
   • Who cannot exult in Spring?
2. celebrate a jubilee