enjoy
verbtop 1 000 in film dialogue
- Canada//ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ//
- Canada//ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ//
- Canada//ənˈd͡ʒɔɪ//
- Australia//enˈd͡ʒoɪ//
- Australia//ɪnˈd͡ʒoɪ//
To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
verb
- 1
To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.
I've really enjoyed you and your sister showing me around.
And we shall sit at endless feast, Enjoying each the other’s good; What vaster dream can hit the mood Of Love on earth?
"Well, why did you tell me?" said I softly, to enjoy her flutters of amazement , of dismay.
- 2
To have the use or benefit of something.
I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
Night and day were the same in this prison room, but Tommy's wrist-watch, which enjoyed a certain degree of accuracy, informed him that it was nine o'clock in the evening.
This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
- 3
To be satisfied or receive pleasure; to have fun.
I enjoyed a lot.
- 4
To have sexual intercourse with.
Never did thy Beautie[…]so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.
Etymology
From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- + joy.
Forms
- past tense
- enjoyed
- past participle
- enjoyed
- present participle
- enjoying
- third person singular
- enjoys
enjoy · To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
enjoyable · Pleasant, capable of giving pleasure.enjoyment · The condition of enjoying anything.enlighten · To supply with light.