different between jubilation vs jubilantly

English

Etymology

From Old French jubilacion, from Latin i?bil?ti? (“a shouting for joy”). Cognate with Spanish jubilación (“retirement”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

jubilation (countable and uncountable, plural jubilations)

1. A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation.

Related terms

• jubilant, jubilance, jubilancy
• jubilate
• jubilee

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin i?bil?ti? (“a shouting for joy”). Synchronically analysable as jubiler +? -ation.

Pronunciation

Noun

jubilation f (plural jubilations)

1. jubilation

Further reading

• “jubilation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

jubilant +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?d?u?.b?.l?nt.li/, /?d?u?.b?.l?nt.li/

Adverb

jubilantly (comparative more jubilantly, superlative most jubilantly)

1. With jubilation or triumph.
   • 1910 - Jack London, Burning Daylight, part II chapter 7

     The socialist press of the city jubilantly exploited this utterance, scattering it broadcast over San Francisco in tens of thousands of paper dodgers.

   • 1922 - Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood, chapter XXIV

     Having written jubilantly home to the Secretary of State that his mission had succeeded, he was now faced with the necessity of writing again to confess that this success had been ephemeral.

Synonyms

• (with jubilation): delightedly, elatedly, joyfully

Translations