Enjoy

/ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
2. (transitive) To have the use or benefit of something.
3. (intransitive, India) To be satisfied or receive pleasure; to have fun.
4. (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.

Example Sentences

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?

It is not a crime to enjoy some bacon or a trout or what have you.

Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

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.

Synonyms for enjoy

Antonyms for enjoy

Related Words

Word Forms

• enjoys
• enjoying
• enjoyed
• enioy
• injoy

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