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pleasure [ pleas·ure ]
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1. A feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment.
she smiled with pleasure at being praised
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2. Enjoyment and entertainment, as opposed to necessity.
The toy is a tool for pleasure, leisure, and entertainment.
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3. An event or activity from which one derives enjoyment.
They have an inclination for pleasures and they desire to revel in them for ever.
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4. Sensual gratification.
The body has needs that give pleasure when satisfied.
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1. Used or intended for entertainment rather than business.
The pleasure business is clearly a successful one.
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1. Give sexual enjoyment or satisfaction to.
It is a wonderful, and natural, way of releasing sexual tension, and pleasuring one's self.
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2. (pleasure in) Derive enjoyment from.
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity and I pleasured in the thought.
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Origin
1. Late Middle English from Old French plaisir ‘to please’ (used as a noun). The second syllable was altered under the influence of abstract nouns ending in -ure, such as measure.
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