Definition/Meaning of delight

• English - Noun: delight ( plural delights ) Joy; pleasure . Bible , Proverbs xviii . 2 A fool hath no delight in understanding . Shakespeare Sounds and sweet airs , that give delight and hurt not . Something that gives great joy or pleasure . Milton: Heaven's last , best gift , my ever new delight . Greensleeves: Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight , [ … ] Translations Derived terms…
• English - Verb: delight ( third-person singular simple present delights , present participle delighting , simple past and past participle delighted ) To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly . Tennyson Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds . A beautiful landscape delights the eye . ( intransitive ) To have or take great pleasure Derived terms delight in Related terms delicacy…
• English - Etymology: An unetymological spelling , in imitation of words like light , might , etc .; the analogical modern spelling would be delite ; from Middle English deliten , from Old French deleiter , deliter , from Latin delectare ( “ to delight , please ” ), frequentative of delicere ( “ to allure ” ); see delicate .
• English - Pronunciation: IPA (key) : /dəˈlaɪt/ , /dɪˈlaɪt/ Rhymes: -aɪt
• English - External links: delight in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913 delight in The Century Dictionary , The Century Co ., New York , 1911