|
delight Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press: delight/dɪˈlʌɪt/ ▶verb please greatly. ■ (delight in) take great pleasure in. ▶noun great pleasure.■ a cause or source of great pleasure. – derivatives delighted adjective, delightedly adverb. – origin ME: from OFr. delitier (v.), delit (n.), from L. delectare ‘to charm’, frequentative of delicere. 'delight' also found in these Oxford entries:
Forum discussions with the word(s) "delight" in the title: "To the delight of someone or ... "? delight to put then that have in mind thereof? delight/pleasantness everyone groaned with horrified delight give a delight gold tooth flashing a miner's delight Monkberry Moon Delight (Paul McCartney) much to someone's delight neither play with that delight? Red delight Share your heads in mourning for the children in whom you delight. tempered their delight Look up "delight" at Merriam-Webster Look up "delight" at dictionary.com In other languages: Spanish | French | Italian | Portuguese | German | Russian | Polish | Romanian | Czech | Greek | Turkish | Chinese | Japanese | Korean | Arabic |
|
