pleasure
Part of speech: noun
intj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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.
Affixes: -ure
Inflected forms:
form: pleasures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pleasures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pleasuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pleasured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pleasured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He remembered with pleasure his home and family.
I get a lot of pleasure from watching others work hard while I relax.
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.
Maximize all the pleasure / Even with all this weather / Nothing can make it better / Maximize all the pleasure
gloss: A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It was a pleasure to meet you.
Having a good night's sleep is one of life's little pleasures.
Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure
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.
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
gloss: Sexual enjoyment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: One's preference.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: What is your pleasure: coffee or tea?
gloss: The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
pos: noun
tags: formal
uncountable
examples: to hold an office at pleasure: to hold it indefinitely until it is revoked
to be imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure: to be imprisoned indefinitely
at Congress's pleasure: whenever or as long as Congress desires
Use your pleasure; if your love do not persuade you to come, let not my letter.
He will do his pleasure on Babylon.
gloss: pleased to meet you, "It's my pleasure"
pos: intj
gloss: To give or afford pleasure to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [H]e / [...] / Had tost his ball and flown his kite, and roll'd / His hoop to pleasure Edith, [...]
gloss: To give sexual pleasure to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Johnny pleasured Jackie with his mouth last night.
In the opening scene, Rupert Campbell-Black (played by Alex Hassell), the gravitational center of Cooper’s world, is seen pleasuring a woman in the bathroom of a Concorde jet, thrusting so vigorously that she hardly notices when the plane goes supersonic.
gloss: To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: to go pleasuring
Synonyms: beatitude
bliss
delectation
delight
ecstasy
euphoria
lust
nirvana
pleasure
rapture
ravishment
transport
Antonyms: agony
Related words: aroused
blissful
happy
pleasant
displeasure
please
Derived words: 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
manually 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
pleasure dome
pleasuredome
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 is mine
the pleasure's mine
the pleasure's all 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
pleasurability
pleasure oneself
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: agradar
lang: Esperanto
word: plezuri
lang: Portuguese
word: agradar
lang: Spanish
word: gustar