please
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
How often you will meet it
Rank 541 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 36,116 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.017% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- give pleasure to or be pleasing to also: delight These colors please the sensesa pleasing sensation
- be the will of or have the will he could do many things if he pleased
- give satisfaction The waiters around her aim to please
adverb
- used in polite request please pay attention
please 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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The workbag, if you please, of the District Nurse, Mary Winship.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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That delay over, good-by: he can find board and lodging where he please.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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It was nine o'clock before they departed, and then they only left to please the landlord.
Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1
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So unable to please a woman, that, like a Dutch doublet, all his back is shrunk into his breaches.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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I named them occasionally out of compassion, and to please my father, who said that they ought to have a turn.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete · George Meredith · Chapter 1