See happy as a lark on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for happy as a lark meaning in All languages combined (3.1kB)
{ "etymology_text": "Derived from comparison to the cheerful-sounding birdsong of a lark.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "adjective" }, "expansion": "happy as a lark", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup", "parents": [ "Entries with topic categories using raw markup", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English similes", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys", "parents": [ "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Emotions", "orig": "en:Emotions", "parents": [ "Mind", "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Happiness", "orig": "en:Happiness", "parents": [ "Emotions", "Mind", "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "She's happy as a lark with her ten dollar pay raise, even though the long-term prospects for the business are not good." } ], "glosses": [ "Very happy (sometimes with the extra connotations of being carefree or unaware of grimmer realities)." ], "id": "en-happy_as_a_lark-en-adj-11Q9ozNO", "links": [ [ "carefree", "carefree" ], [ "unaware", "unaware" ], [ "grim", "grim" ] ], "qualifier": "simile", "raw_glosses": [ "(simile, colloquial) Very happy (sometimes with the extra connotations of being carefree or unaware of grimmer realities)." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "happy" } ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ], "translations": [ { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "very happy", "word": "šťastný jako blecha" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "very happy", "word": "gai comme un pinson" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "very happy", "word": "ledo coma un cuco" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "very happy", "word": "madarat lehetne fogatni" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "very happy", "word": "mais feliz que pinto no lixo" }, { "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "very happy", "word": "cho sona ri bròg" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "very happy", "word": "feliz como una perdiz" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "very happy", "word": "más contento que unas castañuelas" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "very happy", "word": "como un niño con zapatos nuevos" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "very happy", "word": "glad som en lärka" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-happy as a lark.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cd/En-au-happy_as_a_lark.ogg/En-au-happy_as_a_lark.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/En-au-happy_as_a_lark.ogg", "tags": [ "Australia" ], "text": "Audio (AU)" } ], "word": "happy as a lark" }
{ "etymology_text": "Derived from comparison to the cheerful-sounding birdsong of a lark.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "adjective" }, "expansion": "happy as a lark", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English colloquialisms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English entries with topic categories using raw markup", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English similes", "English terms with audio links", "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys", "en:Emotions", "en:Happiness" ], "examples": [ { "text": "She's happy as a lark with her ten dollar pay raise, even though the long-term prospects for the business are not good." } ], "glosses": [ "Very happy (sometimes with the extra connotations of being carefree or unaware of grimmer realities)." ], "links": [ [ "carefree", "carefree" ], [ "unaware", "unaware" ], [ "grim", "grim" ] ], "qualifier": "simile", "raw_glosses": [ "(simile, colloquial) Very happy (sometimes with the extra connotations of being carefree or unaware of grimmer realities)." ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-happy as a lark.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cd/En-au-happy_as_a_lark.ogg/En-au-happy_as_a_lark.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/En-au-happy_as_a_lark.ogg", "tags": [ "Australia" ], "text": "Audio (AU)" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "happy" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "very happy", "word": "šťastný jako blecha" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "very happy", "word": "gai comme un pinson" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "very happy", "word": "ledo coma un cuco" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "very happy", "word": "madarat lehetne fogatni" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "very happy", "word": "mais feliz que pinto no lixo" }, { "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "very happy", "word": "cho sona ri bròg" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "very happy", "word": "feliz como una perdiz" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "very happy", "word": "más contento que unas castañuelas" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "very happy", "word": "como un niño con zapatos nuevos" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "very happy", "word": "glad som en lärka" } ], "word": "happy as a lark" }
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.