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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : zhwaduh vee-vruh |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʒwadə ˈvi vrə |
Definition of joie de vivre
Origin :- 1889, French, literally "joy of living."
- noun cheerfulness
- Many of them still possessed an amazing amount of the joie de vivre.
- Extract from : « December Love » by Robert Hichens
- Lola Montez learned in Paris what was meant by the joie de vivre.
- Extract from : « Lola Montez » by Edmund B. d'Auvergne
- She saw that his natural gayety and joie de vivre, long subdued, were again welling up within him.
- Extract from : « Colorado Jim » by George Goodchild
- She was Danish by birth, and the Danes, unlike the Norwegians, have a large supply of good spirits and the joie de vivre.
- Extract from : « Katharine Frensham » by Beatrice Harraden
- Delancey is overflowing with joie de vivre, with curiosity, with a certainty of imminent adventure.
- Extract from : « Balloons » by Elizabeth Bibesco
- The seventh lamp, which goes as naturally with idealism as care and patience go with naturalism, is joy, joie de vivre.
- Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
- She was noted for her gaiety and joie de vivre and for the energy with which she pursued enjoyment.
- Extract from : « The Way of Ambition » by Robert Hichens
- The whole work is a convincing example of Brahms's vitality and "joie de vivre."
- Extract from : « Music: An Art and a Language » by Walter Raymond Spalding
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