Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To receive pleasure or satisfaction from.
- intransitive verb To have the use or benefit of.
- intransitive verb To have a pleasurable or satisfactory time.
- idiom (enjoy oneself) To have a pleasurable or satisfactory time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Enjoyment.
- To feel or perceive with joy or pleasure; take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of: as, to
enjoy the dainties of a feast, the conversation of friends, or our own meditations; to enjoy foreign travel. - To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; have, hold, or occupy, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable: as, he enjoys a large fortune, or an honorable office.
- To derive pleasure from association with or observation of; take delight in being with or in: as, to
enjoy one's friends; I enjoyed Paris more than London; to enjoy the country. - Specifically To have sexual intercourse with.
- To have or possess, as something good or desirable, in a general sense: as, he enjoys the esteem of the community; the paper enjoys a wide circulation.
- To live in happiness; take pleasure or satisfaction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To take satisfaction; to live in happiness.
- transitive verb To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with
- transitive verb To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable.
- transitive verb To have sexual intercourse with.
- transitive verb to feel pleasure; to be happy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
receive pleasure orsatisfaction from something - verb To have the
use orbenefit of something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb have benefit from
- verb take delight in
- verb get pleasure from
- verb derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
- verb have for one's benefit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Congratulations to all the winners … enjoy ~enjoy ~ enjoy: ~)
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SO OFTEN, SADLY, WE do not associate the word enjoy with God.
Fear Not Tommorow, God is Already There Ruth Graham 2009
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SO OFTEN, SADLY, WE do not associate the word enjoy with God.
Fear Not Tommorow, God is Already There Ruth Graham 2009
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SO OFTEN, SADLY, WE do not associate the word enjoy with God.
Fear Not Tommorow, God is Already There Ruth Graham 2009
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The word "enjoy" is important because anyone can take on extra jobs and then rush through their housework and make it look like they are coping.
The Homemaker's Time 2007
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The word "enjoy" is important because anyone can take on extra jobs and then rush through their housework and make it look like they are coping.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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And Bob and uh others … I was pointing a usage of the word enjoy in a specific way … made possible by todays culture of "enjoy" that is distinctly different from the way the Westminster catechesim uses the word.
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But one thing that conservatives do enjoy is praising those who wish to execute gays.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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The world's wild places were for me to enjoy from the comfort of my own home, nothing more.
Alastair Humphreys: Adventure Will Change Your Life Alastair Humphreys 2010
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If in life, a situation in a place, which I enjoy, is being negatively impacted and disrupting a sense of decorum or well being for me, work at trying to change it to restore a place of contentment.
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