enjoy

  • 21Enjoy 33 — Slogan « Just play ! » Langue Français Pays  France Siège social …

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  • 22enjoy — v. 1) to enjoy enormously, greatly, immensely, very much 2) (G) she enjoys swimming 3) (K) they enjoy his singing * * * [ɪn dʒɔɪ] greatly immensely very much (G) she enjoys swimming (K) they enjoy his singing to enjoy enormously …

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  • 23enjoy — en|joy [ ın dʒɔı ] verb *** 1. ) transitive to get pleasure from something: Do you enjoy cooking or do you just see it as a chore? enjoy doing something: I don t enjoy going on vacation as much as I used to. a ) enjoy yourself to get pleasure… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 24enjoy — [[t]ɪnʤɔ͟ɪ[/t]] ♦♦ enjoys, enjoying, enjoyed 1) VERB If you enjoy something, you find pleasure and satisfaction in doing it or experiencing it. [V n/ ing] Ross had always enjoyed the company of women... [V n/ ing] He was a guy who enjoyed life to …

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  • 25enjoy*/*/*/ — [ɪnˈdʒɔɪ] verb [T] 1) to get pleasure from something Did you enjoy your meal?[/ex] I don t enjoy going to the cinema as much as I used to.[/ex] 2) formal to have a particular good feature The hotel enjoys a magnificent view of the harbour.[/ex] • …

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  • 26enjoy — en•joy [[t]ɛnˈdʒɔɪ[/t]] v. t. 1) to take pleasure in; experience with joy 2) to have the benefit of; have and use with satisfaction: to enjoy a six percent rise in sales[/ex] 3) inf to enjoy oneself • enjoy oneself Etymology: 1350–1400; ME: to… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 27enjoy — v.tr. 1 take delight or pleasure in. 2 have the use or benefit of. 3 experience (enjoy poor health). Phrases and idioms: enjoy oneself experience pleasure. Derivatives: enjoyer n. enjoyment n. Etymology: ME f. OF enjoier give joy to or enjoiumlr… …

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  • 28enjoy — verb /ɛnˈdʒɔɪ,ɪnˈdʒɔɪ,ənˈdʒɔɪ/ a) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something Enjoy your holidays! b) To have the use or benefit of something I enjoy dancing …

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  • 29enjoy — [14] Originally, enjoy was used intransitively in English, rather as in the modern American Yiddish influenced injunction ‘Enjoy!’: ‘Yet he never enjoyed after, but in conclusion pitifully wasted his painful life’, Robert Laneham 1549. However,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 30enjoy —    to copulate with    Usually of the male, from the days when the pleasure was supposed to be his alone:     You shall, if you will, enjoy Ford s wife. (Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor)    A man may also, if so inclined, enjoy favours or …

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