joys

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of joy.

   Few joys compare to seeing your children succeed.

   The garden brought her countless quiet joys throughout the summer.

   Note

   The countable side of a word that can also name the feeling in the mass. The emotion itself is hard to pluralize, but the things that cause it are easy to count, and the plural usually counts these sources: a garden's quiet pleasures, a child's success. The same spelling also serves the verb meaning "rejoices". A determiner such as few, many or her signals the noun.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of joy.

   Note

   Here the grammar decides the period. Without an object the verb is simply "rejoices," and what is rejoiced over follows a preposition (her heart joys in the music). With a direct object it turns old. "He joys his fortune," meaning "enjoys it," is archaic, and the senses "gladdens" and "congratulates" are obsolete. In current writing, keep it intransitive.

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