DELIGHT
\dɪlˈa͡ɪt], \dɪlˈaɪt], \d_ɪ_l_ˈaɪ_t]\
Definitions of DELIGHT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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That which gives great pleasure or delight.
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Licentious pleasure; lust.
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To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear.
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To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; - followed by an infinitive, or by in.
By Oddity Software
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That which gives great pleasure or delight.
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Licentious pleasure; lust.
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To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear.
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To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; - followed by an infinitive, or by in.
By Noah Webster.
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To gratify or please greatly; charm.
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Be highly gratified or pleased: with in.
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An extreme degree of pleasure; high satisfaction; joy.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To please highly.
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To have or take great pleasure: to be greatly pleased.
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A high degree of pleasure: extreme satisfaction: that which gives great pleasure.
By Daniel Lyons
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To please highly.
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A high degree of pleasure or satisfaction; that which gives great pleasure.
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To be greatly pleased or rejoiced. See Delicate.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A high degree of pleasure or satisfaction; that which gives great pleasure.
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To please highly; to give or afford high satisfaction; to have great pleasure in.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. A high degree of gratification of mind; lively pleasure or happiness;—that which affords delight.
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Joy, pleasure, satisfaction; that which gives delight.
By Thomas Sheridan
