Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Great pleasure; joy.
- noun Something that gives great pleasure or enjoyment.
- intransitive verb To take great pleasure or joy.
- intransitive verb To give great pleasure or joy.
- intransitive verb To please greatly: synonym: please.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A high degree of pleasure or satisfaction; joy; rapture.
- noun That which gives great pleasure; that which affords a high degree of satisfaction or enjoyment.
- noun Licentious pleasure; lust.
- To affect with great pleasure or rapture; please highly; give or afford a high degree of satisfaction or enjoyment to: as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear; poetry delights the mind.
- To have or take great pleasure; be greatly pleased or rejoiced: followed by an infinitive or by in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by
in . - noun A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.
- noun That which gives great pleasure or delight.
- noun obsolete Licentious pleasure; lust.
- transitive verb To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
joy ;pleasure - verb To give
pleasure to.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb hold spellbound
- verb take delight in
- noun something or someone that provides a source of happiness
- noun a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
- verb give pleasure to or be pleasing to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The day of my delight is the day when draw you near
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The day of my delight is the day when you draw near, i.
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If all of the audience, all of every audience, has tried to play the pieces they hear played, you know the delight is a thousand-fold greater.
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The day of my delight is the day when you draw near,
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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The word here rendered "delight" is indeed stronger than "consent" in Ro 7: 16; but both express a state of mind and heart to which the unregenerate man is a stranger.
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If she shrieks (in delight) then it's got potential.
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My geeky, three year old self squealed in delight to learn that Chaim Topol is starring once again as Tevye in a 2009 farewell tour of Fiddler on the Roof.
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What makes a Tim Burton movie something more than just a visual delight is its screenplay.
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Screams of delight from the young things in the doorways prevented the proper answer and Lute, from under the piano, cried out to young Wainwright, who had appeared:
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If she shrieks (in delight) then it's got potential.
knitandpurl commented on the word delight
"And I sat there, unable to take my eyes from the strip which persisted in remaining dark; I bent my whole body forward to make certain of noticing any change; but, gaze as I might, the the vertical black band, despite my impassioned longing, did not give me the intoxicating delight that I should have felt had I seen it changed by a stroke of sudden and significant magic to a luminous bar of gold."
--Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 174 of the Modern Library paperback edition
February 13, 2009