happiness in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for happiness in the English»French Dictionary

happiness [Brit ˈhapɪnəs, Am ˈhæpinəs] N

happiness

bonheur m

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short-lived triumph, success, happiness

bref/brève, de courte durée

unclouded happiness

sans nuages

blemish beauty, happiness

ternir

attain happiness

parvenir à

fugitive happiness

éphémère, fugace

ecstatic happiness, joy, trance, state, smile

extatique

elusive person, animal, happiness, concept

insaisissable

Translations for happiness in the French»English Dictionary

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bonheur national brut

gross national happiness

resplendissant de santé/bonheur

glowing with health/happiness

happiness in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for happiness in the English»French Dictionary

happiness N no pl

happiness

bonheur m

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happiness oozing from every pore

joie qui émane de toute sa personne

consummate happiness

total(e)

in pursuit of happiness

à la recherche du bonheur

seek happiness, revenge

rechercher

Translations for happiness in the French»English Dictionary

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des yeux pétillants de malice/gaieté

eyes shining with evil/happiness

pétiller de gaieté/de malice

sparkling with happiness/evil

bonheur

happiness

bonheur/amitié sans nuage(s)

untroubled happiness/friendship

refléter le bonheur

to glow with happiness

happiness Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

in pursuit of happiness

à la recherche du bonheur

happiness oozing from every pore

joie qui émane de toute sa personne

he is bursting with happiness/confidence/pride

il déborde de santé/de confiance en lui/ de fierté

health and happiness in the New Year!

bonne année, bonne santé!

to share in sb else's happiness

s'associer à la joie de qn

to wish sb lots of happiness

souhaiter beaucoup de bonheur à qn

to be beside oneself with joy/happiness

ne plus se sentir de joie/bonheur

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Marriage processions were believed to be vulnerable to such spirits who target peoples happiness.

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She also has to accept that happiness is a to harder to achieve than it seems.

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One narration is about their first days of meeting and happiness.

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Our thoughts and our acts, he said, can only give us happiness through results: and results are not often in our own control.

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Upon one such little step in the great staircase of human life how vast a sum of human happiness or misery depends!

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Art was filled with health and happiness; paintings teemed with busy industrial and agricultural scenes, and sculptures depicted workers, sentries, and schoolchildren.

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He created men to help each other, to love each other mutually, and to attain to happiness by the way of virtue.

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For example, in a study participants were asked to predict their happiness after receiving $20.

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Her happiness turns serious as he explains that he must leave soon and is never coming back.

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She is played as a having moments of happiness which she ruins for herself and as managing to justify whatever she does that's bad.

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