enjoy
derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,622 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,189 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in also: bask, relish, savor, savour She relished her fame and basked in her glory
- have benefit from enjoy privileges
- get pleasure from also: love I love cooking
- have for one's benefit The industry enjoyed a boom
- take delight in also: delight, revel he delights in his granddaughter
enjoy in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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As it is, he's a millionaire, but I don't think he'll enjoy his money.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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No one else, he mused, seemed to enjoy life as keenly and eagerly as he did.
Where the Blue Begins · Christopher Morley · Chapter 1
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So that the nephew could only enjoy the interest, and had no control over the capital.
Lucretia — Volume 06 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · Chapter 1
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So that I grieve when I enjoy your presence, And die for grief by reason of your absence.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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How could she rest, or enjoy the trip unless she were sure that Dorothy was absolutely content and happy?
Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore · Amy Brooks · Chapter 1