Usually means: Cheerful and lively in mood.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word merry:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. merry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. merry: Merriam-Webster
  3. merry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. merry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. merry: Collins English Dictionary
  6. merry: Vocabulary.com
  7. Merry, merry: Wordnik
  8. merry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Merry, merry: Wiktionary
  10. merry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. merry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. merry: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Merry, merry: Dictionary.com
  14. merry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. merry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Merry (Japanese band), Merry (band), Merry (song), Merry (surname), Merry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Merry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. merry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. merry: Rhymezone
  20. Merry: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. merry: FreeDictionary.org
  22. merry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. merry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. merry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. merry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  26. merry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. merry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. merry: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. merry, merry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See merrier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.
adjective:  Festive and full of fun and laughter.
adjective:  Brisk
adjective:  Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
adjective:  (euphemistic) drunk; tipsy
noun:  An English wild cherry.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a merry person.
noun:  A female given name from merry.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Mercy.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Meredith.

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