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Meaning of humour

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  humour
      n 1: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state
           of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on
           his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn:
           {temper}, {mood}, {humor}, {humour}]
      2: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has
         the power to evoke laughter [syn: {wit}, {humor}, {humour},
         {witticism}, {wittiness}]
      3: (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose
         balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical
         state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black
         bile" [syn: {humor}, {humour}]
      4: the liquid parts of the body [syn: {liquid body substance},
         {bodily fluid}, {body fluid}, {humor}, {humour}]
      5: the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
         [syn: {humor}, {humour}]
      6: the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the
         humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't
         survive in the army without a sense of humor" [syn: {humor},
         {humour}, {sense of humor}, {sense of humour}]
      v 1: put into a good mood [syn: {humor}, {humour}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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