Humor - Humour - Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Oxford logo Toggle navigation Redeem Upgrade Help Sign in

• Dictionaries
  • Dictionaries home
  • English
  • American English
  • Academic
  • Collocations
  • German-English
• Grammar
  • Grammar home
  • Practical English Usage
  • Learn & Practise Grammar (Beta)
• Word Lists
  • Word Lists home
  • My Word Lists
  • Topics
  • Recent additions
• Resources
  • Resources home
  • Text Checker

Sign in Dictionaries

• Dictionaries home
• English
• American English
• Academic
• Collocations
• German-English

Grammar

• Grammar home
• Practical English Usage
• Learn & Practise Grammar (Beta)

Word Lists

• Word Lists home
• My Word Lists
• Topics
• Recent additions

Resources

• Resources home
• Text Checker

Redeem Upgrade Help TOP English English American English Academic English Collocations Practical English Usage German-English English-German English American English Enter search text

Definition of humor noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

humor noun  /ˈhjuːmə(r)/  /ˈhjuːmər/ (US English) (British English humour) jump to other results

1. [uncountable] the quality in something that makes it funny; the ability to laugh at things that are funny
   • It was a story full of gentle humor.
   • She ignored his feeble attempt at humor.
   • They failed to see the humor of the situation.
   • I can't stand people with no sense of humor.
   • to have a dry/keen/wicked/wry sense of humor
   • She smiled with a rare flash of humor.
   • She has her very own brand of humor.
   • The movie is only funny if you appreciate French humor (= things that cause French people to laugh).
   
2. [countable, uncountable] (formal) the state of your feelings or mind at a particular time
   • to be in the best of humors
   • The meeting dissolved in ill humor.
   • out of humor to be out of humor (= in a bad mood)
   • The remarks were made in good humor.
3. [countable] (old use) one of the four liquids that were thought in the past to be in a person’s body and to influence health and character

See humor in the Oxford Advanced American DictionaryCheck pronunciation: humor

Other results

All matches

• humor verb
• humor
• ill humor
• good humor
• aqueous humor
• gallows humor
• vitreous humor

Nearby words

• hummus noun
• humongous adjective
• humor noun
• humor verb
• humorist noun

snowboarding noun From the Topic Sports B1 Oxford Learner's Dictionaries Word of the Day