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Fun   /fən/   Listen
noun
Fun  n.  Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun."
To make fun of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule. in fun, jokingly; not seriously; for amusement. like fun, definitely not; used adverbially, mostly to contradict a prior assertion; A: "He says he won't do it again." B: "Like fun he won't.".



adjective
fun  adj.  (compar. funner; superl. funnest)  Of or pertaining to fun; causing pleasure or amusement; as, a fun thing to do. (informal)





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"Fun" Quotes from Famous Books



... instead of letting them be times when you slip back morally. Take your conscience with you (but do not wear it outside), and be very careful to keep your rules, your prayers, your home standard of right and wrong, your quietness and self-control. Do not "let yourself go," and do silly things for fun. A great many leave their sense of responsibility at home, whereas our visits are part of the regular course of that life for which God will judge us. And keep your mind open, get new ideas, read the books in the house, instead of ...
— Stray Thoughts for Girls • Lucy H. M. Soulsby
 
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... delicious news to the class of Louises, who laughed out like a chime of silver bells as they mischievously bade La Force and Angelique bon voyage, and passed down the Place d'Armes in search of fresh adventures to fill their budgets of fun—budgets which, on their return to the Convent, they would open under the very noses of the good nuns (who were not so blind as they seemed, however), and regale all their companions with a spicy treat, in response to the universal ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
 
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... particularly when the joke was on his side, he went on chaffing Farmer Jonathan about the hay. He offered to trade brooms, clothes-lines, etc., for it, while those standing around laughed, and those passing along the street paused to see what the fun was. ...
— Harper's Young People, July 20, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
 
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... be done in this emergency?" soliloquized the governess, unconsciously thinking aloud. "Miss Gertrude Ross," turning to a girl of nine whose merry blue eyes were twinkling with fun, "follow your brother at once and inform him that I cannot permit any such act of insubordination; and he must return instantly to the performance ...
— Elsie's Motherhood • Martha Finley
 
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... loved to whittle, Shaped it like the half of O— How he could I scarcely know, For his fingers were so little. As he whittled came a sigh: "If I only had an arrow; Something light enough to fly To the tree-tops or the sky! Then I'd have such fun tomorrow." ...
— Our Boys - Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors • Various
 
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