~ (at / in / over sth) (formal) to express great happiness about sth
SYNCELEBRATE:
[V] When the war ended, people finally had cause to rejoice. * The motor industry is rejoicing at the cut in car tax. * [Vtoinf] They rejoiced to see their son well again. [also Vthat]
IDIOMS
rejoice in the name of... (BrE, humorous) to have a name that sounds funny:
He rejoiced in the name of Owen Owen.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rejoice is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rejoice a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rejoice is tagged as verb.
Does rejoice appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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