Dictionary

jocund en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• jäkʹənd (US)
• /ˈd͡ʒəʊkənd/ (UK)
• /ˈd͡ʒɑkənd/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈd͡ʒɒkənd/ (UK)
• /ˈd͡ʒoʊkənd/ (US)
• jōʹkənd (US)

Etymology

From Old French jocond, from Latin iūcundus (“pleasant, agreeable”). Doublet of jucund.

Meanings

1. Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
   • First in his train is jocund Health, Content, who o'er her distaff sings, And from the plough that honest Wealth Which scorns the tear-bought robe of kings.— 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Toil, page 107:
   • Kunana, where we enjoyed a peace and Prosperity that were unequalled anywhere; where our cattle waxed fat along the green valleys and bred like so many wild animals; where our flocks with the jocund lambs around their dams would frolic, while the she-goats fed from two to three kids each, till we were forced to increase and extend our outposts to give them more and still more space to roam about; Kunana, where maidens sang and danced in the moonlight and made life merry with their mirth; Kunana, our former home, but now, one of the Matebele outposts. 1930, Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, “Mhudi’s Alarming Experiences”, in Mhudi, page 19:
   • I was feeling blithe, almost jocund. 1876 June, Mark Twain, “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut”, in The Atlantic:
   • There was once a widdow faire, young, free, rich, and withall very pleaſant and iocund, that fell in loue with a certaine round and well-ſet ſeruant of a Colledge: […] 1612, [Miguel de Cervantes], “Which Treates of the Strange Aduentures that Hapned to the Knight of the Mancha, in Sierra Morena: And of the Penance He Did there, in Imitation of Belti Nebros”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC, part 3, page 243:
   • Nights candles are burnt out, and iocond Day / Stands tiptoes on the myſtie mountaine tops. c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
   • Thou mak'ſt me merry: I am full of pleaſure, / Let vs be iocond. Will you troule the Catch / You taught me but whileare? 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 12, column 2:

Forms

Deriveds

jocundly · jocundness · unjocund · jocundry

Relateds

jocundity

Translations (16)

pl wesoły (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · es jocundo (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · ru весёлый (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · pt jocundo (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · fr enjoué (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · it giocondo (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · fr gai (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · ka მხიარული (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · bg весел (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · bg радостен (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · ka საამო (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · ka გაცოცხლებული (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · de heiter (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · ca jocund (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · fr jovial (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits) · pl radosny (jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits)