pleasure
/ˈplɛʒɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
Example Sentences
- "He remembered with pleasure his home and family."
- "I get a lot of pleasure from watching others work hard while I relax."
- "But the only statistic that will concern West Brom will be the scoreline, and their manager Roy Hodgson will take considerable pleasure from a victory over the club he managed for just 191 days."
- "Maximize all the pleasure / Even with all this weather / Nothing can make it better / Maximize all the pleasure"
- "It was a pleasure to meet you."
- "Having a good night's sleep is one of life's little pleasures."
Etymology
From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, alteration (with ending accommodated to -ure) of Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), infinitive used as a noun, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-k- (“wide and flat”). Related to Dutch plezier (“pleasure, fun”). More at please.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈplɛʒɚ/
- British English: /ˈplɛʒə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
antipleasure
forepleasure
pleasurable
pleasurance
pleasurebot
pleasured
pleasuredome
pleasuredrome
pleasureful
pleasurehood
pleasureless
pleasurement
Phrases
at Her Majesty's pleasure
at His Majesty's pleasure
at one's pleasure
at pleasure
business before pleasure
do someone a pleasure
do someone the pleasure of
during Her Majesty's pleasure