cheer

[cheer]

A cheer is what you shout at a sporting event when you cheer your team on, showing your enthusiasm and support. Often there's a lot of cheer or good spirits at these games, unless of course your favorite team loses.

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The face; the countenance or its expression.

Noun
the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom; "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room"

Noun
a cry or shout of approval

Verb
show approval or good wishes by shouting; "everybody cheered the birthday boy"

Verb
urge on or encourage especially by shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"

Verb
become cheerful

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Verb
cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful; "She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee"

Verb
give encouragement to


n.
The face; the countenance or its expression.

n.
Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart.

n.
Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation.

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.


Cheer

Cheer , n. [OE. chere face, welcome, cheer, OF. chiere, F. ch'8are, fr. LL. cara face, Gr. head; akin to Skr. iras, L. cerebrum brain, G. hirn, and E. cranium.] 1. The face; the countenance or its expression. [Obs.] "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif. 2. Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart.
Be of good cheer.
The parents . . . fled away with heavy cheer.
3. Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation.
I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
1. That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer. 5. A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc.
Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street.
Whzt cheer? Now do you fare? What is there that is cheering?

Cheer

Cheer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheered ; p. pr. & vb. n. cheering.] 1. To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up. Cowpe. 2. To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered.
3. To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase. To cheer ship, to salute a passing ship by cheers of sailors stationed in the rigging. Syn. -- To gladden; encourage; inspirit; comfort; console; enliven; refresh; exhilarate; animate; applaud.

Cheer

Cheer, v. i. 1. To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up.
At sight of thee my gloomy soul cheers up.
2. To be in any state or temper of mind. [Obs.]
How cheer'st thou, Jessica?
3. To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc.
And even the ranks of Tusculum Could scare forbear to cheer.

The face; the countenance or its expression.

To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up.

To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up.

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Usage Examples

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.

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Other Usage Examples

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

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