enjoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/
ipa: /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪ/
ipa: /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: enjoys
form: enjoying
form: enjoyed
form: enjoyed
form: enioy
form: injoy
Etymology: From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- + joy.
Senses: examples: text: Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.
text: And we shall sit at endless feast,
⁠Enjoying each the other’s good;
⁠What vaster dream can hit the mood
Of Love on earth?
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 69:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
glosses: To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
examples: text: I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
text: that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 36:8:
text: 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.
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 17”, in The Secret Adversary:
text: This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
ref: 1988, Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays:
text: 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.
ref: 2008, Jonathan Borwein, David Bailey, Mathematics by Experiment:
synonyms: rejoice in
glosses: To have the use or benefit of something.
examples: text: I enjoyed a lot.
glosses: To be satisfied or receive pleasure.
examples: text: Never did thy Beautie[…]so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.
ref: 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:
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with.
Synonyms: sense: receive pleasure or satisfaction
word: appreciate
sense: receive pleasure or satisfaction
word: delight in
sense: receive pleasure or satisfaction
word: rejoice
sense: receive pleasure or satisfaction
word: relish
sense: receive pleasure or satisfaction
word: pleasure
sense: receive pleasure or satisfaction
word: feast
sense: have sexual intercourse with
word: coitize
word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: copulate with
Derived terms: disenjoy
enjoyable
enjoyee
enjoyer
enjoyful
enjoyingly
enjoyment
enjoy oneself
enjoy your holiday
enjoy your meal
joyability
overenjoy
reenjoy
unenjoyed
unenjoying