rejoice

re‧joice /rɪˈdʒɔɪs/ BrE AmE verb [intransitive]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: rejoir, from Latin gaudere 'to rejoice']
1. literary to feel or show that you are very happy
rejoice at/over/in
His family rejoiced at the news.
We rejoiced in our good fortune.
2. rejoice in the name/title (of) something British English to have a name or title that is silly or amusing:
He rejoices in the name of Pigg.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rejoice

re·joice [rejoice rejoices rejoiced rejoicing] [rɪˈdʒɔɪs] [rɪˈdʒɔɪs] verb intransitive, transitive (formal)
to express great happiness about sth
• When the war ended, people finally had cause to rejoice.
• ~ at/in/over sth The motor industry is rejoicing at the cut in car tax.
• ~ to do sth They rejoiced to see their son well again.
• ~ that… I rejoice that justice has prevailed.
Idiom: rejoice in the name of …
Verb forms:

Word Origin:

Middle English (in the sense ‘cause joy to’): from Old French rejoiss-, lengthened stem of rejoir, from re- (expressing intensive force) + joir ‘experience joy’.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

rejoice / rɪˈdʒɔɪs / verb [ I ] formal

to feel or show great happiness about something:

Everyone rejoiced at the news of his safe return.

She rejoiced in her good fortune.

[ + to infinitive ] I rejoiced to see that she had made such a quick recovery.

Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

rejoice

[rɪʤɔ͟ɪs]
rejoices, rejoicing, rejoiced
1) VERB If you rejoice, you are very pleased about something and you show it in your behaviour.
  [V in/at n] Garbo plays the Queen, rejoicing in the love she has found with Antonio...
  [V in/at n] A Foreign Ministry statement said that the French government rejoiced at the happy outcome to events...
  [V that] Party activists in New Hampshire rejoiced that the presidential campaign had finally started. [Also V]
  Derived words:
  rejoicing N-UNCOUNT There was general rejoicing at the news.
2) PHRASE: V inflects If you say that a person or thing rejoices in the name of something, you mean that they have a silly or amusing name.
  ...their tortoise, who rejoiced in the name of Carruthers.

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rejoice

re·joice /rɪˈʤoɪs/ verb -joic·es; -joiced; -joic·ing [no obj] : to feel or show that you are very happy about something
• We all rejoiced over/about/in/at our friend's good luck.
• The fans rejoiced when their team finally won the World Series. = The fans rejoiced in their team's World Series victory.
rejoice in the name/title of Brit humorous : to have a name/title that makes people laugh or smile
• a woman who rejoices in the name of Eugenia Whelpbottom
- rejoicing noun [noncount]
• There was much rejoicing when the soldiers returned home.