# enjoy

Pronunciation: say "in-JOY" /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/

## Verb

1. To receive pleasure or satisfaction from an activity, experience, or thing.
   - Simple: To get a happy or good feeling from something you do, see, or have.
   - _Thousands of fans enjoyed the fireworks despite the rain._
   - _Many cats enjoy a warm spot in the afternoon sun._
2. To have the use or benefit of something, such as a right, advantage, or favorable condition.
   - Simple: To have something good, such as health, money, or rights.
   - _Residents enjoy access to the building's rooftop garden._
   - _The company enjoyed record profits last quarter._
3. To have fun, as in enjoy oneself; the bare form Enjoy! is said when serving someone food or handing over something they will like.
   - Simple: To have a good time. People also say "Enjoy!" when they give you food or something nice.
   - _Did the kids enjoy themselves at the wedding?_
   - _The waiter set down two steaming bowls of ramen and said, "Enjoy!"_
4. To be satisfied or to experience pleasure. *(India)*
   - Simple: To feel pleasure or have a good time.
   - _We spent a week in Goa over the holidays and really enjoyed._
   - _Forget about work this weekend and just enjoy with the family._

## Verb

5. To have sexual intercourse with; a dated and euphemistic use. *(dated)*
   - Simple: An old, polite way of saying to have sex with someone.
   - _Rumor held that the baron meant to enjoy her before any betrothal could be arranged._
   - _The memoir claims the general enjoyed his mistress on the eve of every campaign._

## Origin

Made of en- and joy, it came into Middle English as enjoyen from Old French enjoier (also anjoier, enjoer), 'to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/enjoy (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).