laugh|ter

laugh|ter
laugh|ter «LAF tuhr, LAHF-», noun.
1. the sound of laughing: »

Laughter filled the room.

2. the action of laughing: »

The audience rocked with laughter at the clown's foolish antics. Of all the countless folk who have lived…not one is known…as having died of laughter (Max Beerbohm).

3. Especially Poetic. a subject or matter for laughter: »

Hath Cassius lived To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus? (Shakespeare).

[Old English hleahtor]

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