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# humor

«humor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person's mood or state of mind, as in «good humor»…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (humors); (US spelling of humour)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Humor is a person's mood or state of mind, as in «good humor» (cheerful) or «bad humor» (cross). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humor/#m1)

2) Humor is also the ability to see what is funny, or what is said in a funny way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humor/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales «good humor» means a happy mood, so a king with good humor is pleased and kind

### examples

- The Lion now recovered his good humor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humor/#x1)
- She was in a bad humor after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humor/#x2)
- His humor made everyone laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humor/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «humor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.