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Meanings of happiness in English

Russian
счастье
Portuguese
felicidade
Spanish
dicha
Catalan
benaventurança
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Mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by pleasant emotions.

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счастье

The 70's Biweekly (MCY-001034)

Usage of happiness in English
1
Indeed, the same choice may bring great happiness yet also great pain.
Worlds of Honor
2
The best hope of happiness is helping families resolve problems from birth.
The Guardian
3
OPINION: Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
The Irish Times
4
This gave the greatest happiness to the greatest number: quite easily done.
The Guardian
5
Devices used to measure various health indicators can also gauge worker happiness.
BBC
6
Conversely, you never hear it used for exercise, health or happiness either!
The Irish Times
7
Topics - it's natural to believe that success will bring you happiness.
Radio NZ
8
And people found happiness in the future according to their present lack.
East of eden
9
Increasingly, however, researchers are focusing more on the pursuit of animal happiness.
BBC
10
And, said Ingelhart, there is a strong correlation between happiness and democracy.
Reuters
11
The grandmother remained silent, not to mar the happiness of the child.
Heidi / (Gift Edition)
12
This week Doug addresses our typical level of happiness as we age.
Radio NZ
13
Death is the end of all things-ofconsciousness; of sensation; of happiness.
Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
14
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
Broke, usa: from pawnshops to poverty, inc.—how the working poor...
15
I felt the first inkling of true happiness I'd known in years.
Angel time: the songs of the seraphim
16
We have seen it produce happiness in life, and courage in death.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 / Taken from a View of the ...
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Australia
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