Definition of gaiety noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
gaiety meaning, definition, what is gaiety: when someone or something is cheerful an...: Learn more.
It is coming into use in Germany and among the English-speaking upper classes of many cosmopolitan areas in other countries. [John Boswell, "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality," 1980] "Gay"(或"gai")现在在法语、荷兰语、丹麦语、日语、瑞典语和加泰罗尼亚语中广泛使用,含义与英语...
The slang meaning "homosexual" (adj.) begins to appear in psychological writing in the late 1940s, evidently picked up from gay slang and not always easily distinguished from the older sense: After discharge A.Z. lived for some time at home. He was not happy at the farm and went to a...