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Definition of Enjoy

1. Verb. Derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in. "Sam and Sue enjoy the movie "; "She relished her fame and basked in her glory"

2. Verb. Have benefit from. "Enjoy privileges"

3. Verb. Get pleasure from. "They enjoy him to write the letter"; "I love cooking"

4. Verb. Have for one's benefit. "The industry enjoyed a boom"

5. Verb. Take delight in. "They will enjoy the duet"; "He delights in his granddaughter"

Definition of Enjoy

1. v. t. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation.

2. v. i. To take satisfaction; to live in happiness.

Definition of Enjoy

1. Verb. To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something ¹

2. Verb. To have the use or benefit of something ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Enjoy

1. to receive pleasure from [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enjoy

enjambements enjambing enjambment enjambments enjambs enjoin enjoinder enjoinders enjoined enjoiner

enjoiners enjoining enjoinment enjoinments enjoins enjoy (current term) enjoy oneself enjoy your meal enjoyability enjoyable

enjoyableness enjoyablenesses enjoyably enjoyed enjoyer enjoyers enjoying enjoyingly enjoyment enjoyments

Literary usage of Enjoy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: In the by John Tracy Atkyns, Philip Yorke Hardwicke, William Newnam, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1781)
"... win oblige the building to enjoy it quietly, ... on his right. ing to enjoy it If I ... enjoy ..."

2. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1896)
"clined it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions; namely, that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, ..."

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