"sense of humour" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: senses of humour [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|senses of humour}} sense of humour (plural senses of humour)
  1. A person’s faculty for finding certain things funny. Categories (topical): Comedy Synonyms: sense of humor [US] Translations (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny): հումորի զգացում (humori zgacʻum) (Armenian), 幽默感 (yōumògǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), smysl pro humor [masculine] (Czech), humoristisk sans [common-gender] (Danish), gevoel voor humor (Dutch), huumorintaju (Finnish), sens de l’humour [masculine] (French), senso de humor [masculine] (Galician), იუმორის გრძნობა (iumoris grʒnoba) (Georgian), Sinn für Humor [masculine] (German), αίσθηση του χιούμορ (aísthisi tou chioúmor) [feminine] (Greek), חוש הומור (english: khush humor) (Hebrew), humorérzék (Hungarian), senso umoristico [masculine] (Italian), ユーモアのセンス (yūmoa no sensu) (Japanese), ngākau manawa reka (Maori), poczucie humoru [neuter] (Polish), senso de humor [masculine] (Portuguese), чу́вство ю́мора (čúvstvo júmora) [neuter] (Russian), sentido del humor [masculine] (Spanish), sinne för humor [neuter] (Swedish), อารมณ์ขัน (aa-rom-kǎn) (Thai), mizah anlayışı (Turkish), espri anlayışı (Turkish), почуття гумору (počuttja humoru) [neuter] (Ukrainian), khiếu hài hước (Vietnamese)

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