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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To be exuberant.
  • intransitive verb Archaic To abound; overflow.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To abound; be in exuberance or great abundance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To abound; to be in great abundance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To abound; to be in great abundance.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb to express great joy

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English exuberaten, to make fruitful, from Latin exūberāre, exūberāt- : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex– + ūberāre, to be fruitful (from ūber, fertile; see euə-dh-r̥ in Indo-European roots).]

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Latin exuberatus, past participle of exuberare. See exuberant (noun).

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