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/ɛndʒˈɔɪ/ /ɪndʒˈɔɪ/ Listen

verb

Enjoy v. t. (past & past part. enjoyed; pres. part. enjoying)

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.

To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty. "That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers." "To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season."

To have sexual intercourse with.

To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure; to be happy.

Enjoy v. i. To take satisfaction; to live in happiness. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Enjoy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enjoy" Quotes from Famous Books

... them in Europe!" he assured us. "I did enjoy those ten years in America. I would do anything I could for one ...

— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams

... in the old days to meet Mr. Pickwick, who pronounced it "delightful!—thoroughly delightful," while "the skin of his expressive countenance was rapidly peeling off with exposure to the sun"? Has he not invited the world to enjoy the loveliness of its solitudes with him, and peopled its haunts ...

— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields

... the front of the box, filling it, elbowing all minor, human chairs out of the way. The Prince turned and looked at them, and turned them out. He would have none of them. He was not there to be a superior person at all; he was there to be human and enjoy human companionship. He had the front of the box filled with chairs, and he had friends in to sit with him and talk with him when intervals in the music permitted. And the audience was his friend for that; they admired him for the way he turned his back on formalities and ceremonials. ...

— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton

... is closely followed, any family may enjoy it at a trifling expense, and it is really worthy the table of an epicure. It can be made the day before it is to ...

— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette

... does, and that voluntarily, beyond any of her subjects; but from her own nature, generous and charitable to all that want or deserve; and in order to exercise those virtues, denying herself all entertainments of expense which many others enjoy. Then if we look abroad, at least in Flanders, our arms have been crowned with perpetual success in battles and sieges, not to mention several fortunate actions in Spain. These facts being thus stated, which none can ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; • Jonathan Swift

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