Usually means: Expression that provokes laughter and amusement.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word humour:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. humour: Merriam-Webster
  2. humour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. humour: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. humour: Collins English Dictionary
  5. humour: Vocabulary.com
  6. Humour, humour: Wordnik
  7. humour: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. humour: Wiktionary
  9. humour: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. humour: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. humour: Dictionary.com
  12. humour: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Humour (disambiguation), Humour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. humour: Rhymezone
  15. humour (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. humour: FreeDictionary.org
  17. humour: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. humour: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. humour: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. Humour: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. humour: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. humour: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. humour: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. humour: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. humour: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. humour: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. humour: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. humour: The Folk File
  2. Humour: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See humouring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
noun:  (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
noun:  (archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
noun:  (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
noun:  (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.
verb:  (transitive) To pacify by indulging.

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