enjoy Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
savor; savour; bask; relish.
- She relished her fame and basked in her glory
verb have benefit from
- enjoy privileges
verb get pleasure from
love.
- I love cooking
verb have for one's benefit
- The industry enjoyed a boom
verb take delight in
delight; revel.
- he delights in his granddaughter

OF. enjoier to receive with joy; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. & F. joie joy: cf. OF. enjoir to enjoy. See Joy.

imperfect & past participle Enjoyed ; present participle & verbal noun Enjoying

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.
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.
To have sexual intercourse with. Milton.