Delight

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  • noun. Great pleasure; joy.
  • noun. Something that gives great pleasure or enjoyment.
  • intransitive verb. To take great pleasure or joy.
  • intransitive verb. To give great pleasure or joy.
  • intransitive verb. To please greatly: synonym: please.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A high degree of pleasure or satisfaction; joy; rapture.
  • noun. That which gives great pleasure; that which affords a high degree of satisfaction or enjoyment.
  • noun. Licentious pleasure; lust.
  • To affect with great pleasure or rapture; please highly; give or afford a high degree of satisfaction or enjoyment to: as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear; poetry delights the mind.
  • To have or take great pleasure; be greatly pleased or rejoiced: followed by an infinitive or by in.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.
  • noun. That which gives great pleasure or delight.
  • noun. Licentious pleasure; lust.
  • transitive verb. To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly
  • intransitive verb. To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. joy; pleasure
  • verb. To give pleasure to.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. hold spellbound
  • verb. take delight in
  • noun. something or someone that provides a source of happiness
  • noun. a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
  • verb. give pleasure to or be pleasing to
  • Word Usage
    "The day of my delight is the day when you draw near, i."
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