- pleasure
- noun1 enjoymentADJECTIVE▪ considerable, deep, enormous, great, intense▪
It gives me enormous pleasure to welcome my next guest.
▪ genuine, real▪ pure, sheer▪ quiet▪The audience nodded with quiet pleasure at her remark.
▪ obvious▪ endless▪Children find endless pleasure in playing with water.
▪ malicious, perverse, sadistic▪ personal▪She takes personal pleasure in tormenting her students.
▪ vicarious▪He gained vicarious pleasure from watching people laughing and joking.
▪ aesthetic, physical, sensual, sexualVERB + PLEASURE▪ bring (sb), give (sb), provide▪ derive, find, gain, get, take▪My grandfather got immense pleasure out of life until the end.
▪ experience, feelPREPOSITION▪ for pleasure▪Some people read for pleasure, and others read to study.
▪ with pleasure▪His eyes lit up with pleasure.
▪ pleasure at▪He beamed with pleasure at seeing her.
▪ pleasure from▪She was deriving a perverse pleasure from his discomfort.
▪ pleasure in▪They took great pleasure in each other's company.
PHRASES▪ business and pleasure, business or pleasure, etc.▪I often meet useful people at parties, so I combine business with pleasure.
▪Are you in Chicago for business or pleasure?
▪ for your listening, reading, viewing, etc. pleasure▪The photographs are now available for your viewing pleasure.
▪ have the pleasure of sth▪May I have the pleasure of the next dance?
▪ pleasure and pain▪These memories bring both pleasure and pain.
2 sth that makes you happyADJECTIVE▪ great▪ dubious▪the dubious pleasure of growing up in the public eye
▪ little, simple, small▪one of life's little pleasures
▪ fleeting, momentary, temporary▪ guilty▪Daytime TV is one of his guilty pleasures.
VERB + PLEASURE▪ have (formal)▪I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you again.
▪ enjoy▪ forgoPLEASURE + NOUN▪ boat, craft▪ cruisePHRASES▪ the pleasures of life▪She enjoys the simple pleasures of life.
▪ the pleasures of the flesh▪Priests promise to forego the pleasures of the flesh.
▪ To what do I owe the pleasure? (= why are you visiting me?) (formal, old-fashioned)
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
