Humour - English meaning
Humour – definitions in English dictionary
nounThe quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.
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His tales are full of humournounA mood or state of mind.
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Her good humour vanishednounEach of the four chief fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile (choler), and black bile (melancholy)) that were thought to determine a person's physical and mental qualities by the relative proportions in which they were present.
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According to humoral theory, the body comprised of the four humours blood, phlegm, choler, and mela…
verbComply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be.
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She was always humouring him to prevent trouble
nounThe ability to find things funny, the way in which people see that some things are funny, or the quality of being funny
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He's got a great sense of humour (= he is very able to see things as funny)., i must say i find his…
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Word origin
Middle English: via Old French from Latin humor ‘moisture’, from humere (see humid). The original sense was ‘bodily fluid’ (surviving in aqueous humour and vitreous humour ); it was used spec
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