pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛʒə/
enpr: plĕzhʹər
ipa: /ˈplɛʒɚ/
rhymes: -ɛʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pleasures
Etymology: From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, alteration (with ending accommodated to -ure) of Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), infinitive used as a noun, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-k- (“wide and flat”). Related to Dutch plezier (“pleasure, fun”). More at please.
Senses: examples: text: He remembered with pleasure his home and family.
text: I get a lot of pleasure from watching others work hard while I relax.
text: But the only statistic that will concern West Brom will be the scoreline, and their manager Roy Hodgson will take considerable pleasure from a victory over the club he managed for just 191 days.
ref: 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
text: Maximize all the pleasure / Even with all this weather / Nothing can make it better / Maximize all the pleasure
ref: 2019, Toro y Moi, “Ordinary Pleasure”, in Outer Peace:
synonyms: delight
gladness
gratification
happiness
indulgence
satisfaction
antonyms: displeasure
pain
glosses: A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.
examples: text: It was a pleasure to meet you.
text: Having a good night's sleep is one of life's little pleasures.
text: Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 25:9:
text: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
ref: 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
synonyms: delight
joy
glosses: A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
glosses: Sexual enjoyment.
examples: text: What is your pleasure: coffee or tea?
synonyms: desire
fancy
want
will
wish
glosses: One's preference.
examples: text: to hold an office at pleasure: to hold it indefinitely until it is revoked
text: to be imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure: to be imprisoned indefinitely
text: at Congress's pleasure: whenever or as long as Congress desires
text: Use your pleasure; if your love do not persuade you to come, let not my letter.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: He will do his pleasure on Babylon.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 48:14:
synonyms: discretion
glosses: The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
Synonyms: word: beatitude
word: bliss
word: delectation
word: delight
word: ecstasy
word: euphoria
word: lust
word: nirvana
word: pleasure
word: rapture
word: ravishment
word: transport
Hypernyms: word: happiness
Hyponyms: word: bed of roses
word: beer and skittles
word: bowl of cherries
word: cakes and ale
word: land of milk and honey
word: peaches and cream
word: rainbows and unicorns
word: sunshine and lollipops
word: sunshine and rainbows
Derived terms: antipleasure
at Her Majesty's pleasure
at His Majesty's pleasure
at one's pleasure
at pleasure
business before pleasure
do someone a pleasure
do someone the pleasure of
during Her Majesty's pleasure
during His Majesty's pleasure
during one's pleasure
during pleasure
end-pleasure
English pleasure
fore-pleasure
forepleasure
gold of pleasure
gold-of-pleasure
gold-pleasure
guilty pleasure
have the pleasure
it's a pleasure
lady of pleasure
live at Her Majesty's pleasure
man of pleasure
mix business with pleasure
my pleasure
oral pleasure
pleasurable
pleasurance
pleasure barge
pleasure boat
pleasurebot
pleasure-carriage
pleasure center
pleasure centre
pleasure craft
pleasure cruise
pleasure curve
pleasured
pleasuredome
pleasure dome
pleasuredrome
pleasureful
pleasure gap
pleasure garden
pleasure-giving
pleasure ground
pleasurehood
pleasure house
pleasureless
pleasure-loving
pleasurement
pleasure moment
pleasuremonger
pleasure of someone's company
pleasure-pain principle
pleasure palace
pleasure principle
pleasurer
pleasure seeker
pleasure-seeker
pleasure-seeking
pleasures of the flesh
pleasures of the table
pleasuresome
pleasure steamer
pleasure trip
pleasure-unpleasure principle
pleasuring
pleasurist
pleasurization
pleasurize
pleasurous
self-pleasure
sexual pleasure
take pleasure
the pleasure is all mine
the pleasure's all mine
the pleasure is mine
the pleasure's mine
to one's pleasure
to pleasure
to what do I owe the pleasure
unpleasure
western pleasure
what's your pleasure
with pleasure
woman of pleasure
Related terms: word: aroused
word: blissful
word: happy
word: pleasant