Jubilation is great public rejoicing. Streets full, noise everywhere, and nobody going home.
It is a collective word rather than a private one, which is why it suits victories, liberations and cup finals rather than personal good news. Scenes of jubilation is close to a fixed phrase in news reports. The adjective jubilant describes the people. The same root gives jubilee, which names a great anniversary, and both go back to a Hebrew word for a ram's horn blown in celebration.
1nounjubilationGreat and public rejoicing.
“There were scenes of jubilation outside the town hall.”
Latin
iūbilātiō
Old French
jubilacion
English, today
jubilation
From Old French jubilacion, from Latin iūbilātiō. From Old French jubilacion, from Latin iūbilātiō (“a shouting for joy”). Cognate with Spanish jubilación (“retirement”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 5 of A Man Called Ove.
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