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What does laughter mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word laughter? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
  2. A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
  3. (archaic) A reason for merriment.
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Each greeting is accompanied by a great deal of genuine laughter and joyousness.
The hall was full of the laughter of the courtiers and the joyous melody of the band.
Even when he joshed with them, the sycophantic laughter was always nervous.
Gareth continued to laugh, and after watching his pure jubilance, Brynn found herself in laughter as well.
There was laughter and raillery as he came aboard dripping, but Armand allowed the incident to be treated as a joke.
The body-language and exasperated laughter of tourists made it clear that they really believed I had queue-jumped.

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