blissとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /blɪs/
• 韻: -ɪs

名詞

bliss (countable and uncountable, plural blisses)

1. Perfect happiness.

   The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.

   • a. 1851, William Wordsworth, “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hayes & Zell, […], published 1860, →OCLC, page 188:

     Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!

   • 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 116:

     What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!—as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe?

   • 1980, Daryl Hall, Janna Allen, “Kiss on My List”, in Voices‎, performed by Hall & Oates:

     When they insist on knowing my bliss
     I tell them this
     When they want to know what the reason is
     I only smile when I lie, then I tell them why

   • 2002, CYNE, “Steady”, in Movements‎:

     So who is this saying that money is bliss?
     Your logic remiss
     You and the devil about to kiss

派生語

関連する語

発音

• IPA: /bliss/, [blis]

名詞

bliss f

1. joy, bliss
   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 8‎:

     Iċ…, eald ǣfensceōp, eorlum bringe blisse in burgum.

     I…, old evening scop, bring bliss in towns for brave men.

Inflection

Strong ō-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: blisse, blesse, blice, blisce, blis, blise, blys, blyss, blysse
  • English: bliss
  • Scots: bliss