Noun: laughter
| Singular | laughter |
| Plural | laughters |
Sample Sentences
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Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.
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There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. [1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:]
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The act of laughter, which is caused by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves. [1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC:]
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Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter. [1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like laughter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English laughter, laghter, laȝter, from Old English hleahtor (“laughter, jubilation, derision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz (“laughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *klek-, *kleg- (“to shout”). Cognate with German Gelächter (“laughter, hilarity, merriment”), Danish and Norwegian latter (“laughter”), Icelandic hlátur (“laughter”). More at laugh. See: Middle English Nouns '
laughter', Old English Nouns '
hleahtor', German Nouns '
Gelächter'.
Verbs referencing "laughter"
Danish Nouns
latter, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
lått, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
lått, German Nouns
Gelächter.