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Cheering   /tʃˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
Cheering

noun
1.
Encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators.  Synonym: shouting.
adjective
1.
Providing freedom from worry.  Synonyms: comforting, satisfying.


Cheer

verb
(past & past part. cheered; pres. part. cheering)
1.
Give encouragement to.  Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate.
2.
Show approval or good wishes by shouting.
3.
Cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful.  Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up.
4.
Become cheerful.  Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up.
5.
Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts.  Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on.



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"Cheering" Quotes from Famous Books



... so.' It was the noon hour and a crowd was in the street, and they gathered round—for our lads smell a fight—and they cheered the little lord for his plucky words, and he rode away while they were cheering and left Lugur standing so black and surly that no one cared to pass an opinion he could hear. Indeed, my eldest daughter kept her little lad from school that afternoon. She said someone was bound to suffer for Lugur's setdown and it wasn't going ...
— The Measure of a Man • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... live the Queen and the Dauphin!" Salvos of artillery were fired from the ramparts of the town and the citadel, and the whole progress of the royal cortege through the streets resembled a triumphal procession. In the evening the entire city was illuminated; and the vociferous cheering of the excited people testified their delight at the bloodless and peaceful termination of an expedition from which they had anticipated for ...
— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe
... so good, so lovely!—noble-looking, and in his very best days. Always was something cheering or lively dropping from his lips. And to think that the last words he uttered were those cries of agony from the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 • Various
... close to the pier-head, where the people were shouting and cheering, some of them even weeping, and waving hats, 'kerchiefs, sticks, and umbrellas, almost wild with joy at seeing so many fellow-creatures rescued from the ...
— The Coxswain's Bride - also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne
... the world like a monkey with his brown face and mincing ways and his grand clothes. I declare when Captain Hawkins came home, just four years ago last Michaelmas, and came up to London with his men, all laughing and rolling along with the people cheering them, I could have kissed the man—to think how he had made the brown men dance and curse and show their white teeth! and to think that the Don had to ask him to dinner, and grin and chatter as if nought ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson


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