"Joy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the noun joy, first used by Puritans in the 17th century.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Joy",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English female given names",
          "parents": [
            "Female given names",
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English given names",
          "parents": [
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1789, William Blake, Infant Joy",
          "text": "\"I have no name: / I am but two days old.\" / What shall I call thee? / \"I happy am, / Joy is my name.\" / Sweet joy befall thee!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman, Chapter XXI",
          "text": "She was named Muriel — after the rather peculiar name of John's mother. Her own mother would have it so; only wishing out of her full heart, happy one! that there should be a slight alteration made in the second name. Therefore the baby was called Muriel Joy — Muriel Joy Halifax."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Princess Kasune Zulu, Warrior Princess, IVP Books, page 80",
          "text": "All the while, our baby Joyce was growing to be a very outgoing baby. ( - - - ) Given the joy we felt watching her grow and from our connection to the church, the name Joy seemed appropriate for our baby girl. Soon that's what we shortened it to, and what she is known by to this day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female given name from English."
      ],
      "id": "en-Joy-en-name-2onTjvcs",
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "word": "Mount Joy"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "Chará",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "word": "Χαρά"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "female given name",
          "word": "Gioia"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "id": "en-Joy-en-name-EMUC1F3L",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/d͡ʒɔɪ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "joy"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-joy.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9d/En-us-joy.ogg/En-us-joy.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/En-us-joy.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "joi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Joy"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪ/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the noun joy, first used by Puritans in the 17th century.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Joy",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Mount Joy"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English female given names",
        "English female given names from English",
        "English given names",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1789, William Blake, Infant Joy",
          "text": "\"I have no name: / I am but two days old.\" / What shall I call thee? / \"I happy am, / Joy is my name.\" / Sweet joy befall thee!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman, Chapter XXI",
          "text": "She was named Muriel — after the rather peculiar name of John's mother. Her own mother would have it so; only wishing out of her full heart, happy one! that there should be a slight alteration made in the second name. Therefore the baby was called Muriel Joy — Muriel Joy Halifax."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Princess Kasune Zulu, Warrior Princess, IVP Books, page 80",
          "text": "All the while, our baby Joyce was growing to be a very outgoing baby. ( - - - ) Given the joy we felt watching her grow and from our connection to the church, the name Joy seemed appropriate for our baby girl. Soon that's what we shortened it to, and what she is known by to this day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female given name from English."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English surnames"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/d͡ʒɔɪ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "joy"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-joy.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9d/En-us-joy.ogg/En-us-joy.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/En-us-joy.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "joi"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "Chará",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Χαρά"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "female given name",
      "word": "Gioia"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Joy"
}