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[ verb ] derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
Examples "She relished her fame and basked in her glory" Used in print (Sports Age, 24:9...)In 1959 SAAMI 's shooting development program announced a new activity designed to expose thousands of teen-age boys and girls to the healthy fun enjoyed through the participation in the shooting sports . Are you looking ahead to the exploding market of millions of American boys and girls , who will grow_up to enjoy a traditional American way_of_life - ranging the fields with a fine American gun and uniformly excellent ammunition ? It 's fun , and it 's easy - so easy that there is time left after cooking , and tent keeping , for the women to get_out and enjoy outdoor fun with their families . (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)Although we enjoyed our rounds of the government_offices in Vientiane , with officials offering tea and pleasing conversation in French , we were getting nowhere . Crossing the 4000 - foot width of the Mekong at Champassak , on a raft with an outboard_motor , we took_off our dusty shirts and enjoyed a veritable ocean breeze . Related terms |
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[ verb ] have benefit from
Examples "enjoy privileges" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)When , therefore , it turned its attention to the concrete entities with which popular imagination had peopled the world of spirit , these entities soon lost whatever status they had enjoyed as actual elements of external reality . (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)In_spite_of the increase in numbers and prestige brought_about by the conversions of Newman and other Tractarians of the 1840 's and 1850 's , the Catholic segment of England one_hundred years ago was a very small one ( four per_cent , or 800000 ) which did not enjoy a gracious hearing from the general public . Further evidence that Roman_Catholicism enjoys a more favorable_position today than in 1861 is the respectful attention given to_it in the mass_media of England . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)There is also the possibility , among higher religions , of experiencing consistent meaning in life and enjoying guidance and expansiveness . |
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[ verb ] get pleasure from
Synonyms Examples "I love cooking" Used in print (The Washington Post...)They enjoyed lemonade and cookies served before and during the concert by teenage sons and daughters of members of the White_House staff . ("Sports"...)Each enjoys seeing the other hit home_runs ( `` I hope Roger hits 80 '' , Mantle says ) , and each enjoys even more seeing himself hit home_runs ( `` and I hope I hit 81 '' ) . Each enjoys seeing the other hit home_runs ( `` I hope Roger hits 80 '' , Mantle says ) , and each enjoys even more seeing himself hit home_runs ( `` and I hope I hit 81 '' ) . (The Christian Science Monitor...)Mr._Podger always particularly enjoyed the last night of each summer at Loon_Lake . (The Sun, [Baltimore]...)As a rule , the autistic child does n't enjoy physical contact with others . |
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[ verb ] have for one's benefit
Examples "The industry enjoyed a boom" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore]...)The share of the new housing market enjoyed by apartments , which began about six years ago , has more_than tripled within that span of time . (Los Angeles Times,...)American_Stock_Exchange prices enjoyed a fairly solid rise but here also trading dwindled . (The Miami Herald,...)Chancellor_Adenauer 's Christian Democratic_Party slipped only a_little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957 . (The New York Times,...)And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going_on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive . (Huston Smith, "Interfaith Communication: The...)Now that Israel enjoys relative prosperity and a reduction of tensions , the secularists are less disposed to compromise . Related terms |
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[ verb ] take delight in
Examples "he delights in his granddaughter" Used in print (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)He thought how this dainty , fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June , enjoying the flowers in the shops , the greetings from old friends , but never really drawing a deep , passionate breath , was so like himself . (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)Winston enjoyed seeing him start_out ; he wore his clothes with style . (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)An item in the letters column of a newspaper renewed a subscription , adding : `` I personally enjoy your newspaper as_much_as my husband '' . Related terms |
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