Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or state of enjoying.
- noun Use or possession of something beneficial or pleasurable.
- noun Something that gives pleasure.
- noun Law The receipt of the benefits of a property, such as ownership or use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of enjoying; pleasurable emotion or sensation; followed by of, a viewing or experiencing with pleasure or delight: as, her enjoyment was manifest; enjoyment of a play, or of a good dinner.
- noun The possession, use, or occupancy of anything with satisfaction or pleasure; in law, the exercise of a right: as, the enjoyment of an estate, or of civil and religious privileges.
- noun That which gives pleasure or satisfaction; cause of joy or gratification; delight: as, the enjoyments of life.
- noun Synonyms Pleasure, gratification, happiness, satisfaction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use.
- noun That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The condition of
enjoying anything. - noun uncountable An enjoyable state of mind.
- noun countable An activity that gives
pleasure . - noun law The
exercise of alegal right
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the pleasure felt when having a good time
- noun act of receiving pleasure from something
- noun (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property
Etymologies
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Examples
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My theme is humble, though the audience to whom I desire to speak is large: for I speak to the ordinary reader with ordinary capacities and ordinary leisure, to whom reading is, or ought to be, not a business but a pleasure; and my theme is the enjoyment -- not, mark you, the improvement, nor the glory, nor the profit, but the _enjoyment_ -- which may be derived by such an one from books.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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But our enjoyment is as beautiful listening to a variety of songs on a CD as it is reading a collection of poems.
Book Talking : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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There are some of you who know how much what you call enjoyment has cost you.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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The less pleasure the enjoyment is the less pain the disappointment will be.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Wine enjoyment is about more than just the wine itself.
Q&A 2009
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Wine enjoyment is about more than just the wine itself.
Q&A 2009
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Wine enjoyment is about more than just the wine itself.
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Wine enjoyment is about more than just the wine itself.
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Wine enjoyment is about more than just the wine itself.
Q&A 2009
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Wine enjoyment is about more than just the wine itself.
Lenn Thompson 2009
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