(n.) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.
(n.) A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc.
(v. t.) To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
(v. t.) To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase.
(v. i.) To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up.
(v. i.) To be in any state or temper of mind.
(v. i.) To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(3) At best I would like to think about this as Project Cheer; we’re going to be upbeat about this.
(4) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(5) Male patients were more cheerful during encounters with younger assistant nurses while female patients were more cheerful when interacting with older assistant nurses.
(6) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(7) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(8) There was indeed a crowd of “Women for Trump” cheering at the event.
(9) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
(10) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
(11) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(12) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
(13) From one of his hospital visits Marr recalls a woman, eight months pregnant, who had suffered a stroke: "There are people far worse off than me who are so incredibly brave and cheerful.
(14) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
(15) Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport .
(16) The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
(17) "I had spent my teen years listening to Germaine Greer and Susie Orbach talking about female intellect," she says, and cheers all round.
(18) Updated at 4.23pm BST 3.19pm BST 54 mins "Afternoon Ian," cheers Simon McMahon.
(19) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(20) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.
Embolden
Definition:
(v. t.) To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(2) One big question is whether Lord Adonis’s NIC will feel emboldened enough to make proposals that conflict with government policy.
(3) Kerry warned a sceptical and sometimes raucous panel that failing to strike Syria would embolden al-Qaida and raise to 100% the chances that Assad would use chemical weapons again.
(4) The worst purveyors of hate, they’re emboldened by this election and they’re out in force.
(5) The forces of chauvinism, protectionism and xenophobia have been emboldened.
(6) Their brains enjoy a wide, uninhabited space that emboldens them to come up with and pursue novel ideas.
(7) The warning, in a report by the energy regulator, Ofgem , could embolden the government to trigger an early "dash for gas" which critics fear would mean higher carbon pollution for decades to come.
(8) The billion-dollar question now is whether Clinton’s recent travails will embolden bigger Democratic fish to take her on.
(9) Still Portland 0-0 RSL after 10 minutes 2.19am GMT 8 mins RSL look emboldened by that chance and now Morales gets the better of Jewsbury near the byline and forces a panicky clearance from Kah for a corner.
(10) Gay rights activists have been emboldened by the US supreme court’s decision last June to award same-sex spouses equal federal benefit rights, prompting an anti-gay backlash primarily in the more conservative southern states.
(11) The embassy move would also embolden Israel to further expand its illegal settlements throughout Palestine.
(12) In the 1940s as it was in the 1840s, as it had been ever since the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth laden with emboldening casks of wine and beer.
(13) attack is the latest offensive by the ever-emboldened insurgency, which has sought to exploit the vacuum created by the contested presidential election, which has failed to produce a successor to Hamid Karzai.
(14) However, in a line reminiscent of George W Bush's "axis of evil", Kerry specifically mentioned a host of US enemies, saying Iran could be "emboldened" if the US did not act.
(15) Senate Democrats were on a collision course with the White House on Tuesday as the party’s newly emboldened liberal wing dug in its heels over global free trade deals it claims will drag down US wages and working conditions.
(16) Finland’s refusal could embolden other eurozone members to block a deal, especially those in central Europea and the Baltic, which are proving to be the fiercest critics of the Greek government.
(17) But without a plan to politically empower them, the region's Sunnis could instead see the attacks as an extension of an 11-year period that has emboldened Iran and the Arab Shias at their expense.
(18) There are children and women and elders here.” If water protectors surrendered now, oil companies could be emboldened, added Brandy-Lee Maxie, a 34-year-old Nakota tribe member from Canada.
(19) This has emboldened the PKK and strengthened its hand both within Turkey and regionally.
(20) We’re concerned that language would embolden pharmaceutical companies to challenge government under the TPP where a country seeks a compulsory license to produce a generic medicine and the company feels it doesn’t meet that criteria because it’s not an emergency or an epidemic,” he said.