enjoyment or satisfaction derived from what is to one's liking; gratification; delight.
worldly or frivolous enjoyment: the pursuit of pleasure.
recreation or amusement; diversion; enjoyment: Are you traveling on business or for pleasure?
sensual gratification.
a cause or source of enjoyment or delight: It was a pleasure to see you.
pleasurable quality: the pleasure of his company.
one's will, desire, or choice: to make known one's pleasure.
verb (used with object),pleas·ured,pleas·ur·ing.
to give pleasure to; gratify; please.
verb (used without object),pleas·ured,pleas·ur·ing.
to take pleasure; delight: I pleasure in your company.
to seek pleasure, as by taking a holiday.
Origin of pleasure
First recorded in1325–75; late Middle English (see please, -ure); replacing Middle English plaisir, from Middle French (noun use of infinitive), from Latin placēre “to please”
SYNONYMS FOR pleasure
1 happiness, gladness, delectation.
5 voluptuousness.
8 preference, wish, inclination, predilection.
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synonym study for pleasure
1. Pleasure,enjoyment,delight,joy refer to the feeling of being pleased and happy. Pleasure is the general term: to take pleasure in beautiful scenery.Enjoyment is a quiet sense of well-being and pleasurable satisfaction: enjoyment at sitting in the shade on a warm day.Delight is a high degree of pleasure, usually leading to active expression of it: delight at receiving a hoped-for letter.Joy is a feeling of delight so deep and so lasting that one radiates happiness and expresses it spontaneously: joy at unexpected good news.
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Pleasure shoots magically in every direction like an explosion of sparks.
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I had the pleasure of meeting Stuart Scott several years ago.
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I tell him about the Pleasure Chest--a Hollywood shop that sells sexual paraphernalia.
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On top of the pleasure (or pain), the clients who saw Mistress Carla received their own additional perks.
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Is it indeed true that I was so near to the pleasure and honour of making your acquaintance?
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This "lake of the mountains" is a favourite place for picnics and pleasure trips from Northport and Belleville.
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Men go sighing on, drinking their rivers of pleasure and climbing their mountains of vanity.
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You knew you had fascinated me and bewitched me, and it gave you pleasure to toy with me!
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Then, he was altogether one of us in his notions of pleasure and recreation.
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British Dictionary definitions for pleasure
pleasure
/ (ˈplɛʒə) /
noun
an agreeable or enjoyable sensation or emotionthe pleasure of hearing good music
something that gives or affords enjoyment or delighthis garden was his only pleasure
amusement, recreation, or enjoyment
(as modifier)a pleasure boat; pleasure ground
euphemisticsexual gratification or enjoymenthe took his pleasure of her
a person's preference or choice
verb
(when intr, often foll by in) to give pleasure to or take pleasure (in)
Derived forms of pleasure
pleasureful, adjectivepleasureless, adjective
Word Origin for pleasure
C14 plesir, from Old French; related to Old French plaisir to please