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Pleasance definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PLEASANCE, n. plez'ance. [See Please.] Gayety; pleasantry; merriment.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion
2: a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure" [syn: pleasure, pleasance] [ant: pain, painfulness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. a feeling of pleasure ; delight 2. a pleasant rest or recreation place usually attached to a mansion

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a secluded enclosure or part of a garden, esp. one attached to a large house. Etymology: ME f. OF plaisance (as PLEASANT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pleasance Pleas"ance, n. [F. plaisance. See Please.] 1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic] --Shak. ``Full great pleasance.'' --Chaucer. ``A realm of pleasance.'' --Tennyson. 2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic] The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. --Ruskin.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Pleasure, gayety, pleasantry, merriment, delight, enjoyment.

Moby Thesaurus

affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, bliss, blissfulness, common, commons, compatibility, complaisance, congeniality, cordiality, enjoyableness, felicitousness, geniality, goodliness, goodness, graciousness, gratefulness, harmoniousness, mellifluousness, mellowness, niceness, paradise, park, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasure garden, pleasure ground, pleasurefulness, public park, rapport, sweetness, sweetness and light, welcomeness