pleasure

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈplɛʒə/
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/ˈplɛʒə/ · /ˈplɛʒɚ/

Definition of pleasure

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.
    “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”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.
    “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”
  2. (countable)A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
    “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. […]”
  3. (uncountable)Sexual enjoyment.
  4. (uncountable)One's preference.
    “What is your pleasure: coffee or tea?”
  5. (formal, uncountable)The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
    “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.”

intj

  1. pleased to meet you, "It's my pleasure"

verb

  1. (transitive)To give or afford pleasure to.
    “[H]e / [...] / Had tost his ball and flown his kite, and roll'd / His hoop to pleasure Edith, [...]”
  2. (transitive)To give sexual pleasure to.
    “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.”
  3. (dated, intransitive)To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.
    “to go pleasuring”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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.

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