ENJOY • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Enjoy

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/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.)

See images of 'Enjoy'

Etymology of 'Enjoy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Enjoy" Quotes from Famous Books

... delight, when we share the Father's own thoughts about Him. The Son knoweth the Father and He has revealed Him and brought us into His own relationship with the Father. Fellowship with His Son is to enjoy this relationship with the Father. The condition for the enjoyment of this privilege in reality, fellowship with the Father and with His Son is, that we walk in the light as He is in the light. These blessed things were written that we sin not. Sin cannot rob us of our salvation, ...

— The Work Of Christ - Past, Present and Future • A. C. Gaebelein

... of death appears from this fact, that it boundlessly multiplies the numbers who can enjoy the prerogatives of life. It calls up ever fresh generations, with wondering eyes and eager appetites, to the perennial banquet of existence. Had Adam not sinned and been expelled from Paradise, some of the Christian Fathers thought, the fixed number ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... Miss Elserly, Once I told you that I loved you; in this matter of the major's, I have been prompted solely by a sincere desire for your happiness; and by acting in this spirit I have entirely taken the pain out of my old wound. Mayn't I, therefore, as the major's most sincere well-wisher, enjoy once more ...

— Romance of California Life • John Habberton

... writer learned not only to perform in the most approved manner all the manual employments of domestic life, but to honor and enjoy these duties. ...

— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

... until he reaches heaven. He set a snare made of his sister's hair and caught the sun. "The sky was instantly darkened. Chapewee's family said to him, 'You must have done something wrong when you were aloft, for we no longer enjoy the light of day.' 'I have,' replied he, 'but it was unintentionally.' Chapewee sent a number of animals to cut the snare, but the intense heat reduced them all to ashes." At last the ground-mole working in the earth cut the ...

— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly

More quotes...