# enjoy
## English
### Alternative forms

* enioy, injoy (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- +‎ joy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/, /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪ/, /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: en‧joy
* Rhymes: -ɔɪ

### Verb

enjoy (third-person singular simple present enjoys, present participle enjoying, simple past and past participle enjoyed)
* (transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
    Enjoy your holidays! I enjoy dancing.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLVI, page 69:And we shall sit at endless feast, ⁠Enjoying each the other’s good; ⁠What vaster dream can hit the mood Of Love on earth?
** 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
* (transitive) To have the use or benefit of something.
    I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 36:8:that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
** 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 17”, in The Secret Adversary: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.
** 1988, Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays:This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
** 2008, Jonathan Borwein, David Bailey, Mathematics by Experiment:The Indo-Arabic system was introduced into Europe in 1000 CE, but due to resistance from several quarters, centuries elapsed before it finally enjoyed widespread use.
* (intransitive, India) To be satisfied or receive pleasure.
    I enjoyed a lot.
* (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Never did thy Beautie […] so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.

#### Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

#### Synonyms

* (receive pleasure or satisfaction): appreciate, delight in, rejoice, relish
* (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

#### Derived terms

* disenjoy
* enjoyable
* enjoyee
* enjoyer
* enjoyful
* enjoyingly
* enjoyment
* enjoy oneself
* enjoy your holiday
* enjoy your meal
* joyability
* overenjoy
* reenjoy
* unenjoyed
* unenjoying

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* joyen, joyne