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  • 101enjoy*/*/*/ — [ɪnˈdʒɔɪ] verb [T] 1) to get pleasure from something Did you enjoy your meal?[/ex] I don t enjoy going to the cinema as much as I used to.[/ex] 2) formal to have a particular good feature The hotel enjoys a magnificent view of the harbour.[/ex] • …

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  • 102enjoy — en•joy [[t]ɛnˈdʒɔɪ[/t]] v. t. 1) to take pleasure in; experience with joy 2) to have the benefit of; have and use with satisfaction: to enjoy a six percent rise in sales[/ex] 3) inf to enjoy oneself • enjoy oneself Etymology: 1350–1400; ME: to… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 103enjoy — v.tr. 1 take delight or pleasure in. 2 have the use or benefit of. 3 experience (enjoy poor health). Phrases and idioms: enjoy oneself experience pleasure. Derivatives: enjoyer n. enjoyment n. Etymology: ME f. OF enjoier give joy to or enjoiumlr… …

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  • 104enjoy oneself — HAVE FUN, have a good time, have the time of one s life; make merry, celebrate, revel; informal party, have a ball, have a whale of a time, whoop it up, let one s hair down. → enjoy * * * enjoy oneself To have a pleasant time • • • Main Entry:… …

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  • 105Enjoy CCCP — Infobox Album Name = Enjoy CCCP Type = compilation Artist = CCCP Fedeli alla linea Released = 1994 Recorded = 80s Genre = Punk rock Length = 44:20 + 41:03 Label = Virgin Producer = Luca Alfonso Rossi Enjoy CCCP is a compilation album by the… …

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  • 106enjoy — verb /ɛnˈdʒɔɪ,ɪnˈdʒɔɪ,ənˈdʒɔɪ/ a) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something Enjoy your holidays! b) To have the use or benefit of something I enjoy dancing …

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  • 107enjoy — [14] Originally, enjoy was used intransitively in English, rather as in the modern American Yiddish influenced injunction ‘Enjoy!’: ‘Yet he never enjoyed after, but in conclusion pitifully wasted his painful life’, Robert Laneham 1549. However,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 108enjoy —    to copulate with    Usually of the male, from the days when the pleasure was supposed to be his alone:     You shall, if you will, enjoy Ford s wife. (Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor)    A man may also, if so inclined, enjoy favours or …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 109enjoy — verb 1》 take pleasure in. 2》 possess and benefit from: the new generation enjoy better health. Derivatives enjoyer noun Origin ME: from OFr. enjoier give joy to or enjoïr enjoy , both based on L. gaudere rejoice …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 110enjoy — /ɛnˈdʒɔɪ / (say en joy), /ən / (say uhn ) verb (t) 1. to experience with joy; take pleasure in. 2. to have and use with satisfaction; have the benefit of. 3. to find or experience pleasure for (oneself). 4. to undergo (an improvement). 5. to have …