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enjoy

verb
/ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/CA/enˈd͡ʒoɪ/

Etymology

From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- + joy.

  1. derived from enjoier
  2. inherited from enjoyen

Definitions

  1. To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.

    • Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.
    • I've really enjoyed you and your sister showing me around.
    • And we shall sit at endless feast, ⁠Enjoying each the other’s good; ⁠What vaster dream can hit the mood Of Love on earth?

  2. To have the use or benefit of something.

    • I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
    • that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
    • Night and day were the same in this prison room, but Tommy's wrist-watch, which enjoyed a certain degree of accuracy, informed him that it was nine o'clock in the evening.

  3. To be satisfied or receive pleasure

    To be satisfied or receive pleasure; to have fun.

    • I enjoyed a lot.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To have sexual intercourse with.

      • Never did thy Beautie[…]so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.

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Derived

disenjoy, enjoyable, enjoyee, enjoyer, enjoyful, enjoyingly, enjoyment, enjoy oneself, enjoy your holiday, enjoy your meal, joyability, overenjoy, reenjoy, unenjoyed, unenjoying

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at enjoy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01enjoy02fun03amusing04hilarious05merriment06playful07enjoying

A definitional loop anchored at enjoy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at enjoy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA