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UK
/ɛndʒˈɔɪ/
]
[ US /ˌɛnˈdʒɔɪ, ɪnˈdʒɔɪ/ ]
[ US /ˌɛnˈdʒɔɪ, ɪnˈdʒɔɪ/ ]
VERB
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derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
She relished her fame and basked in her glory -
have for one's benefit
The industry enjoyed a boom -
take delight in
he delights in his granddaughter -
have benefit from
enjoy privileges -
get pleasure from
I love cooking
How To Use enjoy In A Sentence
- Butterflies enjoy the daisy family too, and there are a few that they especially love. Times, Sunday Times
- There is so much to enjoy here that it is a pity that a good deal of the information imparted is demonstrably wrong. The Times Literary Supplement
- The thing is, a lot of people find a motor home vacation more enjoyable.
- The trek was a bit monotonous at times - I wanted to go faster - but it was relaxing, enjoyable and worth the sore backside.
- Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
- A man of good humour and a great sense of fun, he enjoyed popularity among his teaching colleagues and pupils, many of whom were present at the removal of remains and burial.
- I'm currently enjoying the odd effect of chancing across spoken word excerpts in the original Italian.
- But she's no diva and enjoys her role in the band on equal footing with two men. The Sun
- Tennis or no tennis, we thought it was a perfectly enjoyable playdate. Times, Sunday Times
- The court say that, "to be a citizen it is necessary that he should be entitled to the enjoyment of these privileges and immunities, upon the same terms upon which they are conferred upon other citizens; and unless he is so entitled, _he cannot, in the proper sense of the term, be a citizen_. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting