ENJOY DEFINITIONS - 13 definitions found
enjoy v 1: derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in; "She relished her fame and basked in her glory" [syn: enjoy, bask, relish, savor, savour] 2: have benefit from; "enjoy privileges" 3: get pleasure from; "I love cooking" [syn: love, enjoy] 4: have for one's benefit; "The industry enjoyed a boom" [ant: endure, suffer] 5: take delight in; "he delights in his granddaughter" [syn: delight, enjoy, revel] enjoy c.1380, from O.Fr. enjoir "to give joy, rejoice," from en- "make" + joir "enjoy," from L. gaudere "rejoice." Sense of "have the use or benefit of" first recorded c.1430. Replaced O.E. brucan. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) enjoy verb Etymology: Middle English enjoien, from Anglo-French enjoir, enjoier to gladden, enjoy, from en- + joie joy Date: 15th century intransitive verb to have a good time transitive verb 1. to have for one's use, benefit, or lot ; experience <enjoyed great success> 2. to take pleasure or satisfaction in • enjoyable adjective • enjoyableness noun • enjoyably adverb • enjoyer noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary enjoy (enjoys, enjoying, enjoyed) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you enjoy something, you find pleasure and satisfaction in doing it or experiencing it. Ross had always enjoyed the company of women... I enjoyed playing cricket. VERB: V n/-ing, V n/-ing 2. If you enjoy yourself, you do something that you like doing or you take pleasure in the situation that you are in. I must say I am really enjoying myself at the moment. VERB: V pron-refl 3. If you enjoy something such as a right, benefit, or privilege, you have it. (FORMAL) The average German will enjoy 40 days' paid holiday this year... VERB: V n English Explanatory Dictionary enjoy ɪnˈdʒɔɪ v.tr. 1 take delight or pleasure in. 2 have the use or benefit of. 3 experience (enjoy poor health). øenjoy oneself experience pleasure. øøenjoyer n. enjoyment n. [ME f. OF enjoier give joy to or enjoìr enjoy, ult. f. L gaudere rejoice] English-Old English dictionary enjoy Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Enjoy \En*joy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enjoyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enjoying.] [OF. enjoier to receive with joy; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. & F. joie joy: cf. OF. enjoir to enjoy. See Joy.] 1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation. 2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty. That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. --Num. xxxvi. 8. To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. --Heb. xi. 25. 3. To have sexual intercourse with. --Milton. To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure; to be happy. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Enjoy \En*joy"\, v. i. To take satisfaction; to live in happiness. [R.] --Milton. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms enjoy v. a. [With a personal object only in sense 3.] 1. Take pleasure in, be delighted with, take delight in, derive pleasure from. 2. Have fruition of, have the advantage or blessing of. 3. Have sexual delight with, have intercourse with. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) enjoy ɪnˈdʒɔɪ v. 1 delight in, appreciate, like, take or derive pleasure or satisfaction in or from, relish (in), fancy, take to, Slang dig, get a kick or lift or charge out of, get high on, get off on: Bernard really enjoys Wagner. 2 benefit or profit from, take advantage of, use, utilize, make use of, use to advantage, have, possess: He cannot be charged because he enjoys diplomatic immunity. 3 enjoy oneself. have a good time, make merry, Colloq have a ball or the time of one's life: I enjoyed myself at your party. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 56 Moby Thesaurus words for "enjoy": adore, appreciate, bask in, be enfeoffed of, be fond of, be partial to, be pleased with, be possessed of, be seized of, benefit from, boast, claim, command, delight in, derive pleasure from, devour, dig, eat up, fancy, feast on, fill, freak out on, get high on, gloat over, groove on, have, have and hold, have in hand, have tenure of, hold, indulge in, like, love, luxuriate in, make merry, make use of, occupy, possess, rejoice in, relish, revel in, riot in, savor, smack the lips, squat, squat on, swim in, take advantage of, take pleasure in, take to, taste, use, use to advantage, usucapt, utilize, wallow in |
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