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  • 1.1 Alternative forms
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    • 1.4.2 Synonyms
    • 1.4.3 Derived terms
    • 1.4.4 Translations
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English

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Alternative forms

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• enioy, injoy (obsolete)

Etymology

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From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- +‎ joy.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/, /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪ/, /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/

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• Hyphenation: en‧joy
• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something. Enjoy your holidays!   I very much enjoy dancing.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 69:And we shall sit at endless feast,⁠Enjoying each the other’s good;⁠What vaster dream can hit the moodOf Love on earth?
   • 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
2. (transitive) To have the use or benefit of something. Synonym: rejoice in I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 36:8:that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
   • 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 17”, in The Secret Adversary:Night and day were the same in this prison room, but Tommy's wrist-watch, which enjoyed a certain degree of accuracy, informed him that it was nine o'clock in the evening.
   • 1988, Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays:This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
   • 2008, Jonathan Borwein, David Bailey, Mathematics by Experiment:The Indo-Arabic system was introduced into Europe in 1000 CE, but due to resistance from several quarters, centuries elapsed before it finally enjoyed widespread use.
3. (intransitive, India) To be satisfied or receive pleasure. I enjoyed a lot.
4. (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Never did thy Beautie[…]so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

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• (receive pleasure or satisfaction): appreciate, delight in, rejoice, relish, pleasure, feast,
• (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Derived terms

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• disenjoy
• enjoyable
• enjoyee
• enjoyer
• enjoyful
• enjoyingly
• enjoyment
• enjoy oneself
• enjoy your holiday
• enjoy your meal
• joyability
• overenjoy
• reenjoy
• unenjoyed
• unenjoying

Translations

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Albanian: gëzoj (sq) American Sign Language: OpenB@Chest-PalmBack-OpenB@Trunk-PalmBack RoundSurface-RoundSurface Arabic: اِسْتَمْتَعَ (istamtaʕa), تَمَتَّعَ (tamattaʕa), اِنْبَسَطَ (inbasaṭa) South Levantine Arabic: انبسط (inbasaṭ) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: həzz almaq Basque: gozatu Belarusian: насало́джвацца impf (nasalódžvacca), це́шыцца impf (cjéšycca), наце́шыцца pf (nacjéšycca) Breton: bourrañ (br) Bulgarian: ра́двам се (bg) impf (rádvam se), изпи́твам удово́лствие impf (izpítvam udovólstvie), наслаждавам се impf (naslaždavam se), наслади́ се pf (nasladí se) Catalan: gaudir (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 享受 (hoeng2 sau6) Mandarin: 欣賞 / 欣赏 (zh) (xīnshǎng), 喜愛 / 喜爱 (zh) (xǐ'ài), 享受 (zh) (xiǎngshòu) Corsican: goda (co) Czech: bavit se (cs) impf, těšit se (cs) impf Dalmatian: gaudar Danish: nyde (da) Dutch: genieten van Esperanto: ĝui Estonian: nautima Finnish: nauttia (fi) French: (with a noun) profiter de, jouir de, (with a verb) apprécier, prendre plaisir (fr) Friulian: gjoldi Galician: gozar (gl), desfrutar Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: genießen (de), sich erfreuen an (de) Gothic: 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽 (niutan) Greek: απολαμβάνω (el) (apolamváno) Ancient: τέρπομαι (térpomai) Hebrew: נֶהֱנָה (he) (nehená) Hindi: आनंद लेना (ānand lenā), मज़े लेना (maze lenā), उपभोग करना (upbhog karnā) Hungarian: élvez (hu), szeret (hu) Icelandic: njóta (is) Ido: juar (io) Indonesian: menikmati (id) Irish: bain sult as, bain taitneamh as, bain spórt as Istriot: guodi Italian: godere (it), fare con piacere (it), gioire (it), divertirsi (it) Japanese: 楽しむ (ja) (たのし​む, tanoshimu) Khmer: រីករាយ (km) (riik riəy) Korean: 즐기다 (ko) (jeulgida) Ladin: goder Latin: fruor Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Lombard: godè (lmo), gudè, god (lmo) Luxembourgish: genéissen Maltese: igawdu Maori: hākinakina Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Neapolitan: gudè Ngazidja Comorian: hula Norman: joui (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: nyte (no) Nynorsk: nyte Occitan: gaudir (oc), gausir (oc) Old English: brūcan Old Norse: njóta Ottoman Turkish: بگنمك (beğenmek) Persian: لذت بردن (fa) (lezzat bordan) Polish: cieszyć się (pl) impf, pocieszyć się (pl) pf, podobać się impf (roughly), spodobać się (roughly) Portuguese: aproveitar (pt), desfrutar (pt), gozar (pt), curtir (pt), apreciar (pt) Quechua: achiy Romanian: savura (ro), bucura (ro), distra (ro) Romansch: giudair, guder, giuder, galdeir, giodair Russian: наслажда́ться (ru) impf (naslaždátʹsja), наслади́ться (ru) pf (nasladítʹsja), получа́ть удово́льствие impf (polučátʹ udovólʹstvije), получи́ть удово́льствие pf (polučítʹ udovólʹstvije) Sanskrit: भुनक्ति (sa) (bhunakti), उच्यति (sa) (ucyati), जुषते (sa) (juṣate) Sardinian: godire, gudire, bodire, gosae, gosai, gosare Scottish Gaelic: còrd ri, meal, gabh tlachd ann Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ужи́вати, густирати Roman: užívati (sh), gustirati (sh) Sicilian: gòdiri (scn), còliri (scn) Slovak: tešiť sa impf, baviť sa impf Slovene: uživati Spanish: disfrutar (es), gozar (es), fruir (es) Swedish: tycka om (sv), njuta (sv) Tamil: ரசி (raci) Thai: เพลิดเพลิน (th) (plə̂ət-pləən) Tocharian B: winā-ññ- Turkish: zevk almak, haz almak (tr), eylenmek, eğlenmek (tr) Ukrainian: насоло́джуватися impf (nasolódžuvatysja), насолоди́тися pf (nasolodýtysja), усоло́джуватися impf (usolódžuvatysja), усолоди́тися pf (usolodýtysja), ті́шитися (uk) impf (tíšytysja), наті́шитися pf (natíšytysja), зазнава́ти насоло́ди impf (zaznaváty nasolódy), зазна́ти насоло́ди pf (zaznáty nasolódy) Venetan: goder, godar Vietnamese: thưởng thức (vi) Volapük: juitön (vo) Welsh: mwynhau (cy) Yiddish: געניסן (genisn)

to have the use or benefit of something

Arabic: حَظِيَ (ḥaẓiya) Breton: tañva (br) Catalan: gaudir (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 享有 (zh) (xiǎngyǒu), 享受 (zh) (xiǎngshòu), 享用 (zh) (xiǎngyòng), 受用 (zh) (shòuyòng) Czech: těšit se (cs) impf Dutch: genieten (nl) French: jouir de, bénéficier de (fr) German: genießen (de) Hebrew: השתמש (he) m (hishtamésh) Hungarian: élvez (hu), örvend (hu) Italian: usufruire (it), godere (it), beneficiare (it) Japanese: 享受する (ja) (きょうじゅする, kyōju suru) Korean: 향수하다 (hyangsuhada), 누리다 (ko) (nurida) Latin: fruor Ngazidja Comorian: hula Old English: brūcan Portuguese: aproveitar (pt), gozar de (pt), desfrutar de (pt) Russian: по́льзоваться (ru) impf (pólʹzovatʹsja) Slovene: uživati Spanish: disfrutar (es), gozar (es), aprovechar (es), fruir (es) Swedish: åtnjuta (sv) Vietnamese: hưởng thụ (vi)

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Anagrams

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• joyen, joyne

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