ENJOY

delight, enjoy, revel

(verb) take delight in; “he delights in his granddaughter”

enjoy

(verb) have benefit from; “enjoy privileges”

enjoy, bask, relish, savor, savour

(verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in; “She relished her fame and basked in her glory”

love, enjoy

(verb) get pleasure from; “I love cooking”

enjoy

(verb) have for one’s benefit; “The industry enjoyed a boom”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

enjoy (third-person singular simple present enjoys, present participle enjoying, simple past and past participle enjoyed)

(transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something

(transitive) To have the use or benefit of something.

(intransitive, India) To be satisfied or receive pleasure.

(transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• (receive pleasure or satisfaction): appreciate, delight in, rejoice, relish

• (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also copulate with

Anagrams

• joyen, joyne

Source: Wiktionary

En*joy", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enjoyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enjoying.] Etym: [OF. enjoier to receive with joy; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. & F. joie joy: cf. OF. enjoir to enjoy. See Joy.]

1. 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.

2. 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. Num. xxxvi. 8. To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Heb. xi. 25.

3. To have sexual intercourse with. Milton. To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure; to be happy.

En*joy", v. i.

Definition: To take satisfaction; to live in happiness. [R.] Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition