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English Dictionary: Enjoy by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enjoy
v
  1. derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in; "She relished her fame and basked in her glory"
    Synonym(s): enjoy, bask, relish, savor, savour
  2. have benefit from; "enjoy privileges"
  3. get pleasure from; "I love cooking"
    Synonym(s): love, enjoy
  4. have for one's benefit; "The industry enjoyed a boom"
    Antonym(s): endure, suffer
  5. take delight in; "he delights in his granddaughter"
    Synonym(s): delight, enjoy, revel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enjoy \En*joy"\, v. i.
      To take satisfaction; to live in happiness. [R.] --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enjoy \En*joy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enjoyed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Enjoying}.] [OF. enjoier to receive with joy; pref. en- (L.
      in) + OF. & F. joie joy: cf. OF. enjoir to enjoy. See {Joy}.]
      1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or
            experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be
            delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to
            enjoy conversation.
  
      2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or
            have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as
            something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and
            religious liberty.
  
                     That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the
                     inheritance of his fathers.               --Num. xxxvi.
                                                                              8.
  
                     To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. --Heb.
                                                                              xi. 25.
  
      3. To have sexual intercourse with. --Milton.
  
      {To enjoy one's self}, to feel pleasure; to be happy.
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