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# smiley

«smiley» in Mova's school dictionary: **smiling a lot, cheerful** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (smiley, smilier, smiliest); noun (a smiley, smileys)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Smiley means smiling a lot, cheerful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smiley/#m1)

2) A smiley is a little smiling face drawn or typed, like :-) or an emoji. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smiley/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school life: teachers draw smileys on good work, smiley stickers. In texts and emails: smileys show feelings. Phrases: «smiley face», «a smiley sticker».

### examples

- The teacher drew a smiley on my work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smiley/#x1)
- She's a very smiley baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smiley/#x2)
- Put a smiley at the end of your message. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smiley/#x3)
- I got three smiley stickers today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smiley/#x4)
- The waiter was friendly and smiley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smiley/#x5)

### note

Countable noun: a smiley, smileys. Informal. Emojis are often called smileys.

### Trees and pragmatics

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