smile

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   express with a smile

   I smiled with a sense of thanks.

2. 2
   noun

   A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.

   She's got a perfect smile.

3. 3
   noun

   Favour; propitious regard.

   the smile of the gods

4. 4
   verb

   To have (a smile) on one's face.

   When you smile, the whole world smiles with you.

5. 5
   verb

   To express by smiling.

   to smile consent, or a welcome

6. 6
   verb

   To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.

   When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled.

7. 7
   verb

   To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.

   The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.

8. 8
   verb

   To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.

   The gods smiled on his labours.

Etymology

From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), from Middle Low German *smîlen (“to smile”), from Middle High German smielen, from Old High German smielēn, from Proto-West Germanic *smīlēn, from Proto-Germanic *smīlāną (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”). Cognate with Danish smile, Swedish smila, Faroese smíla (“to smile”); also Saterland Frisian smielje (“to smile”), Low German smielen (“to smile”), Dutch smuilen (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”). Related also to Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old…