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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To receive pleasure or satisfaction from.
  2. v. To have the use or benefit of: enjoys good health.
  3. v. To have a pleasurable or satisfactory time.
  4. enjoy oneself To have a pleasurable or satisfactory time.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To feel or perceive with joy or pleasure; take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of: as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast, the conversation of friends, or our own meditations; to enjoy foreign travel.
  2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; have, hold, or occupy, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable: as, he enjoys a large fortune, or an honorable office.
  3. To derive pleasure from association with or observation of; take delight in being with or in: as, to enjoy one's friends; I enjoyed Paris more than London; to enjoy the country.
  4. Specifically To have sexual intercourse with.
  5. To have or possess, as something good or desirable, in a general sense: as, he enjoys the esteem of the community; the paper enjoys a wide circulation.
  6. To live in happiness; take pleasure or satisfaction.
  7. n. Enjoyment.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
  2. v. To have the use or benefit of something

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with
  2. v. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable.
  3. v. To have sexual intercourse with.
  4. v. rare To take satisfaction; to live in happiness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. have benefit from
  2. v. take delight in
  3. v. get pleasure from
  4. v. derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
  5. v. have for one's benefit

Etymologies

  1. From Old French enjoir (en- +‎ joir), from Latin gaudere. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English enjoien, from Old French enjoir : en-, intensive pref.; see en-1 + joir, to rejoice (from Latin gaudēre; see gāu- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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