Noun: laughter
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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She was right swich to seen in hir visage / As is that wight that men on bere binde / Hir face, lyk of Paradys the image / Was al y-chaunged in another kinde. / The pleye, the laughtre men was wont to finde / On hir, and eek hir Ioyes everychone, / Ben fled, and thus lyth now Criseyde allone. (She was such to see in her visage / like that woman that men on a bier notice; / Her face which was the image of Paradise / had totally changed to another kind; / the play, the laughter men tended to find / on her, and all her joys as well / had left, and there Cressida now lies alone.) [a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book IV”, in Troilus and Criseyde, lines 862–868:]
Nouns inflected like laughter
synder,
laughter,
stepfader,
stepmoder,
taper,
udder,
steer,
splenter,
olde fader,
fornfader,
fother,
forfader,
culter,
halter,
forme fader,
thonder,
winter,
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hleahtor, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahtr, from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz. See: Old English Nouns '
hleahtor', Old English Nouns '
hleahtor'.
Verbs referencing "laughter"
English Nouns
laughter.
Translations