单词 | leisured |
释义 | leisuredadj. 1. Of time, action: Characterized or accompanied by leisure. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [adjective] easyc1385 leisurable1607 vacant1615 leisured1631 leisure1669 sauntry1732 Sundayish1797 sauntering1818 toilless1848 off-duty1851 Sundayfied1899 non-work1922 spare-time1931 non-job1932 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 2nd Pt. Ep. Ded. sig. A3v Please you at any of your more leasur'd houres, to vouchsafe the perusall of these sleight papers. 1647 R. Boyle Let. to Hartlib 8 Apr. in Wks. (1772) I. p. xxxix The particulars..do not only ask a profound knowledge..but likewise a leisured and a great multiplicity of reading. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 56 A leisured and level life, free from excitement, hurry and physical exertion or fatigue. 2. Of persons: Having ample leisure, esp. in the leisured class(es. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [adjective] > at or having leisure > having ample leisure leisureful1556 leisurely1613 leisured1794 leisure1845 society > leisure > [noun] > person(s) at leisure holiday-woman1548 holiday-maker1792 the leisured class(es1848 vacationist1885 vacationer1890 lady (or woman) of leisure1948 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] optimacy1579 aristocracy1651 great world1699 peerage1725 well-connected1788 governing class1795 patriciate1795 well-connected1831 caste1842 (the) salt of the earth1842 the leisured class(es1848 japonicadom1851 countyocracy1859 masterclass1861 proprietariat1872 four hundred1888 the Establishment1923 gratin1934 power élite1942 U1954 upper1955 topside1958 1794 Gentleman's Mag. 64 ii. 1132 Foliage op'ning to the day Courts the leisur'd mortal's stray. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. ii. ii. §4. 268 The services which a nation is entitled to expect from its leisured classes..would be rendered in a much more beneficial manner than at present. 1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 347 The leisured student. 1891 A. Caldecott Eng. Coloniz. 101 The absorption of energy in the making of fortunes has prevented the formation of any such leisured class. 1923 W. S. Maugham Our Betters ii. 85 American wealth has reached a pitch where it was bound to give rise to a leisured class. 1926 B. Webb My Apprenticeship i. 9 The rulers of the country..ought in the main to be drawn from a leisured class. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 43 Obviously he's not one of the leisured classes. 1949 A. Wilson Wrong Set 111 The many leisured-class hypotheses by which Mr. Cockshott obviously lived. 1960 M. Bradbury Phogey! iii. 105 The leisured classes demonstrated their leisure by indulgence in useless pursuits (personal relationships, scholarship, etc.). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1631 |
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