enjoy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/
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/ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/ · /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/ · /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪ/ · /enˈd͡ʒoɪ/ · /ɪnˈd͡ʒoɪ/ · /ənˈd͡ʒoɪ/

Definition of enjoy

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
    “Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.”
    “I've really enjoyed you and your sister showing me around.”
    “And we shall sit at endless feast, ⁠Enjoying each the other’s good; ⁠What vaster dream can hit the mood Of Love on earth?”
    “It is not a crime to enjoy some bacon or a trout or what have you.”
    “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.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
    “Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.”
    “I've really enjoyed you and your sister showing me around.”
    “And we shall sit at endless feast, ⁠Enjoying each the other’s good; ⁠What vaster dream can hit the mood Of Love on earth?”
    “It is not a crime to enjoy some bacon or a trout or what have you.”
    “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.”
  2. (transitive)To have the use or benefit of something.
    “I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.”
    “that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers”
    “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.”
    “This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.”
    “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.”
  3. (India, intransitive)To be satisfied or receive pleasure; to have fun.
    “I enjoyed a lot.”
  4. (transitive)To have sexual intercourse with.
    “Never did thy Beautie[…]so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

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