enjoy
Definitions
- To receive pleasure or satisfaction from. intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- To have the use or benefit of. intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- To have a pleasurable or satisfactory time. intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- (enjoy oneself) To have a pleasurable or satisfactory time. idiom …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- Enjoyment. noun …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- 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. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com) - 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. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- 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. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com) - Specifically To have sexual intercourse with. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- 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. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To live in happiness; take pleasure or satisfaction. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To take satisfaction; to live in happiness. intransitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with transitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- 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 …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- To have sexual intercourse with. transitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- to feel pleasure; to be happy. transitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
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receive pleasure orsatisfaction from something verb …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - To have the
use orbenefit of something verb …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - have benefit from verb …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
- take delight in verb …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
- get pleasure from verb …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
- derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in verb …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
- have for one's benefit verb …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
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Etymology
- late 14c., "rejoice, be glad" (intransitive), from stem of Old French enjoir "to give joy, rejoice, take delight in," from en- "make" (see en- (1)) + joir "enjoy," from Latin gaudere "rejoice" (see joy); Sense of "have the use or benefit of" first recorded early 15c. (replacing Old English brucan, for which see brook (v.)). Transitive meaning "take pleasure in" is mid-15c. In modern use it has a tendency to lose its connection with pleasure: newspaper photo captions say someone enjoys an ice cream cone, etc., when all she is doing is eating it, and Wright's "English Dialect Dictionary" (1900) reports widespread use in north and west England of the phrase to enjoy bad health for one who has ailments. Meaning "have sexual relations with" (a woman) is from 1590s. Related: Enjoyed; enjoys; enjoying. To enjoy oneself "feel pleasure or satisfaction in one's mind" attested by 1708.1590, 1708, 1900
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- Enjoy! (Descendents album) Enjoy! is the third album by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released in 1986 through New Alliance Records and Restless Records. It was the band's final album with guitarist Ray Cooper and only album with bassist Doug Carrion, both of whom left the group after the album's first supporting tour. Enjoy! was marked by the use of toilet humor, with references to defecation and flatulence in its artwork, the title track, and "Orgofart". It also displayed a darker, more heavy metal-influenced sound in the songs "Hürtin' Crüe", "Days Are Blood", and "Orgo 51". Reviewers were critical of both the scatological humor and the heavier songs on the album. Enjoy! features a cover version of The Beach Boys' "Wendy", the only cover song in the Descendents catalog.
- Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon, released in 2004, is a tribute album to the late Warren Zevon by many famous musicians. It includes two unreleased Zevon songs: "The Wind," sung by actor Billy Bob Thornton; and "Studebaker," sung by Warren's son Jordan Zevon.
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