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CHEERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators
Example:
it's all over but the shouting
Synonyms:
cheering; shouting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("cheering" is a kind of...):
encouragement (the expression of approval and support)
Derivation:
cheer (show approval or good wishes by shouting)
cheer (spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts)
cheer (give encouragement to)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Providing freedom from worry
Synonyms:
cheering; comforting; satisfying
Classified under:
Similar:
satisfactory (giving satisfaction)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb cheer
Context examples:
The bulkhead was too thick for us to hear what he said; but whatever it was it affected the hunters strongly, for the cheering was followed by loud exclamations and shouts of joy.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
She felt that she had, indeed, been three months there; and the sun's rays falling strongly into the parlour, instead of cheering, made her still more melancholy, for sunshine appeared to her a totally different thing in a town and in the country.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were Ordog—Satan, pokol—hell, stregoica—witch, vrolok and vlkoslak—both of which mean the same thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is either were-wolf or vampire.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You think he needs cheering up a bit, do you?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The cheering with which the toast was received defies description.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The cheering died away, and there was such a hush that I could hear the crackle of the paper in his hand.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A roar of cheering and of laughter broke from the rough archers and seamen at the sight, answered by a yell of rage from their pursuers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The entrance of the four heroes of the occasion was the signal for a remarkable demonstration of welcome, the whole audience rising and cheering for some minutes.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
