Definitions
Enjoyment, delight, satisfaction, or agreeable feeling.
Word origin
From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, alteration (with ending accommodated to -ure) of Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), infinitive used as a noun, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-k- (“wide and flat”). Related to Dutch plezier (“pleasure, fun”). More at please.
Used in a sentence
“He remembered with pleasure his home and family.”
“I get a lot of pleasure from watching others work hard while I relax.”
“But the only statistic that will concern West Brom will be the scoreline, and their manager Roy Hodgson will take considerable pleasure from a victory over the club he managed for just 191 days.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Delight or enjoyment”8 letters
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