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The synonyms of “Cheer” are: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up, chirk up, embolden, hearten, recreate, barrack, exhort, inspire, root on, urge, urge on, encourage, spur on, drive on, motivate, rally, fire, fire up, acclaim, hail, salute, praise, congratulate, toast, hurrah, applaud, clap, shout for, whistle, raise someone's spirits, brighten, buoy up, enliven, animate, elate, exhilarate, gladden, uplift, give a lift to, perk up, comfort, solace, console, cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine, whoop, bravo, hoot, shout, shriek, happiness, joy, joyousness, gladness, merriment, gaiety, hilarity, mirth, glee, blitheness, jubilation, exultation, euphoria, jollity, jolliness, high spirits, joviality, jocularity, conviviality, buoyancy, optimism, hope, hopefulness, fare, food, foodstuffs, provisions, rations, sustenance, meat
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “cheer” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| blitheness | A feeling of spontaneous good spirits. |
| bravo | A cry of bravo. Bravos rang out. |
| buoyancy | Irrepressible liveliness and good spirit. She plunged into the sea grateful for the buoyancy of the salt water. |
| cheerfulness | The quality or state of being noticeably happy and optimistic. The cheerfulness from the fire. |
| conviviality | A boisterous celebration; a merry festivity. The conviviality of the evening. |
| euphoria | A feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation. In his euphoria he had become convinced he could defeat them. |
| exultation | A feeling of extreme joy. She laughs in exultation. |
| fare | Something offered to the public, typically as a form of entertainment. We should go to Seville but we cannot afford the air fare. |
| food | Any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue. Food shortages. |
| foodstuffs | A substance that can be used or prepared for use as food. |
| gaiety | Lively celebration or festivities. He seemed to be a part of the gaiety having a wonderful time. |
| gladness | Experiencing joy and pleasure. |
| glee | A song for men’s voices in three or more parts, usually unaccompanied, of a type popular especially c.1750–1830. His face lit up with impish glee. |
| happiness | State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. She struggled to find happiness in her life. |
| high spirits | A state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics. |
| hilarity | Extreme amusement, especially when expressed by laughter. By midnight the hilarity had increased. |
| hoot | A raucous sound made by a horn, siren, or steam whistle. There were hoots of derision. |
| hope | A specific instance of feeling hopeful. Their only hope is surgery. |
| hopefulness | The feeling you have when you have hope. |
| hurrah | An utterance of the word hurrah. They gave us a loud hurrah as we went by. |
| jocularity | Fun characterized by humor. |
| jolliness | Feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor. |
| jollity | The quality of being cheerful. He was full of false jollity. |
| joviality | Feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor. |
| joy | A thing that causes joy. Tears of joy. |
| joyousness | The emotion of great happiness. |
| jubilation | The utterance of sounds expressing great joy. Unbelievable scenes of jubilation. |
| meat | The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food. This ll put meat on your bones. |
| merriment | A gay feeling. Her eyes sparkled with merriment. |
| mirth | Amusement, especially as expressed in laughter. His six foot frame shook with mirth. |
| optimism | The belief that good must ultimately prevail over evil in the universe. The talks had been amicable and there were grounds for optimism. |
| provisions | The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening. |
| rations | The food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel. |
| shout | A call-out for one of the emergency services. Do you want another drink My shout. |
| shriek | A high-pitched noise resembling a human cry. Shrieks of laughter. |
| sunniness | The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom. |
| sunshine | Used as a friendly or sometimes threatening form of address. Their colourful music can bring a ray of sunshine. |
| sustenance | The financial means whereby one lives. They were in want of sustenance. |
| whoop | A long rasping indrawn breath characteristic of whooping cough. A moment s silence was followed by whoops of delight. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “cheer” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| acclaim | Praise enthusiastically and publicly. The conference was acclaimed as a considerable success. |
| animate | Heighten or intensify. Prometheus stole fire from heaven to animate his clay men. |
| applaud | Clap one’s hands or shout after performances to indicate approval. I applaud your efforts. |
| barrack | Lodge in barracks. The granary in which the platoons were barracked. |
| brighten | Make more cheerful through the use of color. She seems to brighten his life. |
| buoy up | Float on the surface of water. |
| cheer up | Show approval or good wishes by shouting. |
| chirk up | Raise. |
| clap | Clap one s hands or shout after performances to indicate approval. The crowd was clapping and cheering. |
| comfort | Lessen pain or discomfort alleviate. The victim was comforted by friends before being taken to hospital. |
| congratulate | Pride or congratulate oneself for an achievement. Simone wrote to her shortly after her engagement had been announced to congratulate her. |
| console | Give moral or emotional strength to. You can console yourself with the thought that you did your best. |
| drive on | Proceed along in a vehicle. |
| elate | Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism. While the wealth of wildlife elated me it unnerved me as well. |
| embolden | Give (someone) the courage or confidence to do something. Centre embolden and underline the heading. |
| encourage | Inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to. Pupils are encouraged to be creative. |
| enliven | Make (something) more entertaining, interesting, or appealing. The visit had clearly enlivened my mother. |
| exhilarate | Fill with sublime emotion. She was exhilarated by the day s events. |
| exhort | Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts. Come on you guys exhorted Linda. |
| fire | Set fire to. India fired my imagination. |
| fire up | Drive out or away by or as if by fire. |
| give a lift to | Bestow. |
| gladden | Make glad. The high childish laugh was a sound that gladdened her heart. |
| hail | Hail falls. She hails from Kalamazoo. |
| hearten | Make more cheerful or confident. She was heartened to observe that the effect was faintly comic. |
| hurrah | Shout hurrah. We waved our swords and hurrahed. |
| inspire | Supply the inspiration for. The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well. |
| jolly along | Be silly or tease one another. |
| jolly up | Be silly or tease one another. |
| motivate | Cause (someone) to have interest in or enthusiasm for something. He said he would motivate funds to upgrade the food stalls. |
| perk up | Raise. |
| praise | Express warm approval or admiration of. We can t praise Chris enough he did a brilliant job. |
| raise someone's spirits | Raise the level or amount of something. |
| rally | Drive in a rally. A series of meetings to rally support for the union. |
| recreate | Create again. He recreated Mallory s 1942 climb for TV. |
| root on | Become settled or established and stable in one’s residence or life style. |
| salute | Make a formal salute to. Don t you usually salute a superior officer. |
| shout for | Use foul or abusive language towards. |
| solace | Give moral or emotional strength to. I solaced myself with a slab of chocolate. |
| spur on | Incite or stimulate. |
| toast | Propose a toast to. Place under a hot grill until the nuts have toasted. |
| uplift | Raise up (strata, mountains, etc.) by an upward movement of the earth’s crust. We will be only too pleased to uplift any items you wish us to sell for you. |
| urge | Encourage someone to continue or succeed. I urge caution in interpreting these results. |
| urge on | Push for something. |
| whistle | Blow a whistle especially as a signal. The referee did not whistle for a foul. |
| amuse | Cause (someone) to find something funny. He made faces to amuse her. |
| animate | Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings. Gods in a wide variety of forms both animate and inanimate. |
| applaud | Clap one’s hands or shout after performances to indicate approval. His speech was loudly applauded. |
| applause | A demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together. They gave him a round of applause. |
| barrack | Lodge in barracks. The granary in which the platoons were barracked. |
| cavort | Play boisterously. The players cavorted about the pitch. |
| delight | Take delight in. We broke into an impromptu dance to the delight of the crowd. |
| disport | Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion. The display of these pageants and disports which enlivened the repast. |
| elate | Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism. While the wealth of wildlife elated me it unnerved me as well. |
| embolden | Give (someone) the courage or confidence to do something. Centre embolden and underline the heading. |
| encourage | Spur on. We were encouraged by the success of this venture. |
| entertain | Provide entertainment for. A tremendous game that thoroughly entertained the crowd. |
| enthusiastically | With enthusiasm; in an enthusiastic manner. The report was enthusiastically welcomed by all groups. |
| gladden | Make glad. The high childish laugh was a sound that gladdened her heart. |
| hearten | Make more cheerful or confident. She was heartened to observe that the effect was faintly comic. |
| inspire | Give rise to. His philosophy inspired a later generation of environmentalists. |
| invigorate | Give strength or energy to. The shower had invigorated her. |
| joy | A thing that causes joy. The joy of being alive. |
| lark | Used in names of birds of other families that are similar to the lark e g meadowlark. |
| laughter | The sound of laughing. He enjoyed the laughter of the crowd. |
| mirth | Great merriment. His six foot frame shook with mirth. |
| mockery | Ludicrously futile action. After a mockery of a trial in London he was executed. |
| ovation | A sustained and enthusiastic show of appreciation from an audience, especially by means of applause. The performance received a thundering ovation. |
| passionately | With or involving intense feelings of sexual love. Ruth was passionately interested in politics. |
| pep | Energy and high spirits; liveliness. This tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep. |
| please | Give satisfaction. He arranged a fishing trip to please his son. |
| rejoice | Feel happiness or joy. The guard rejoiced in the name of Blossom. |
| rousing | Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement. A rousing sermon. |
| scoff | An expression of scornful derision. Patrick professed to scoff at soppy love scenes in films. |
| skylark | A common Eurasian and North African lark of farmland and open country, noted for its prolonged song given in hovering flight. He was skylarking with a friend when he fell into a pile of boxes. |
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