Wiktionary:Word of the day/2019/September 25

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Word of the day
for September 25
jovial adj
  1. (comparable) Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry.
  2. (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Jupiter; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).

To mark the premiere of English composer Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets on 29 September 1918, we are featuring a series of words relating to the planets in the Solar System. One of the suite’s movements is Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, composed 105 years ago in 1914.

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