pleasure
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Definition of pleasure
9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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
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(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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(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. […]”
- (uncountable)Sexual enjoyment.
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(uncountable)One's preference.
“What is your pleasure: coffee or tea?”
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(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
- pleased to meet you, "It's my pleasure"
verb
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(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, [...]”
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(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.”
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(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.
Words you can make from pleasure
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31 words- ASLEEP 8 pts
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