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''joie de vivre'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260822002005-00-⌔

joie de vivre - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

joie de vivre (uncountable)

• Enjoyment of living; happiness, ebullience, zest for life.
  • ✤ 2 LF (young 38 & 47 friends only) without lovers seeking similar for fun weekend in P’Town. Enjoy good food, dancing and joie de vivre.¹
  • ✤ By this point, I am losing enthusiasm. It’s really lonely going around and eating at places without a friend, and cold brown rice is hardly inspiring my joie de vivre.²

Etymology

Borrowed from French joie de vivre (literally “joy of living”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA: /ˌʒwɑ də ˈviv(ɹə)/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌʒwɑː də ˈviːvɹə/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• Rhymes: -iːvɹə

Printed 2026-08-22.

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Footnotes

1. 1984 April 21, “P’Town for Memorial Day (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 18: ↩

2. 2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

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