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# laugh

«laugh» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make sounds with your voice that show you think…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (laugh, laughs, laughed, laughing); noun (a laugh, laughs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make sounds with your voice that show you think something is funny or you are happy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#m1)

2) To make fun of someone: "Don't laugh at him." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#m2)

3) As a noun, the sound of laughing or something fun: "That was a good laugh." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, laughing shows joy and helps friends feel close; laughing with someone is kind, laughing at someone can hurt. In stories, laughter shows humour or a happy mood. Phrases: laugh at, laugh out loud, burst out laughing, have a laugh, laughing stock.

### examples

- The joke made me laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#x1)
- We laughed until we cried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#x2)
- Don't laugh at people when they make mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#x3)
- Her laugh is very loud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#x4)
- The baby laughs when I tickle her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#x5)
- We had a good laugh at the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#x6)
- They burst out laughing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#x7)
- Laughing is good for you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#x8)
- The king laughed loud and long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laugh/#x9)

### note

"gh" sounds like "f": "laf". Noun "laughter" (uncountable) means the sound of laughing. "Laugh with" is friendly, "laugh at" can be unkind.

### In the corpora

- [Grief gets gentler over months and years; playing and laughing during that time does not mean you have forgotten the person.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/14/)
- [Afterwards everyone goes to the pub, and some people even laugh while telling stories about Grandad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/3/)
- [Children can notice it kindly, laugh about it together and sometimes help everyone keep the rules.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/4/)
- [Laughing kindly with someone who tripped is fine; laughing at them makes their embarrassment worse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/17/)
- [What's all this tax?" Dad laughs and explains where the missing money went.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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