Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To receive pleasure or satisfaction from.
  • intransitive verb To have the use or benefit of.
  • intransitive verb To have a pleasurable or satisfactory time.
  • idiom (enjoy oneself) To have a pleasurable or satisfactory time.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Enjoyment.
  • To feel or perceive with joy or pleasure; take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of: as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast, the conversation of friends, or our own meditations; to enjoy foreign travel.
  • To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; have, hold, or occupy, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable: as, he enjoys a large fortune, or an honorable office.
  • To derive pleasure from association with or observation of; take delight in being with or in: as, to enjoy one's friends; I enjoyed Paris more than London; to enjoy the country.
  • Specifically To have sexual intercourse with.
  • To have or possess, as something good or desirable, in a general sense: as, he enjoys the esteem of the community; the paper enjoys a wide circulation.
  • To live in happiness; take pleasure or satisfaction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb rare To take satisfaction; to live in happiness.
  • transitive verb To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with
  • transitive verb To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable.
  • transitive verb To have sexual intercourse with.
  • transitive verb to feel pleasure; to be happy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
  • verb To have the use or benefit of something

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb have benefit from
  • verb take delight in
  • verb get pleasure from
  • verb derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
  • verb have for one's benefit

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English enjoien, from Old French enjoir : en-, intensive pref.; see en– + joir, to rejoice (from Latin gaudēre; see gāu- in Indo-European roots).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French enjoir (en- +‎ joir), from Latin gaudere.

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