Enjoy /(?)/

En·joy

Enjoy

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Enjoyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enjoying

  1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation.
  2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty.
    That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
    — Num. xxxvi. 8.
    To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
    — Heb. xi. 25.
  3. To have sexual intercourse with.

Phrases & Compounds
To enjoy one's self
to feel pleasure; to be happy.

Enjoy

v. i.
  1. To take satisfaction; to live in happiness. [R.]