From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer ("to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice"), equivalent to en- + joy.

• IPA: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/, /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪ/, /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/

enjoy (enjoys, present participle enjoying; simple past and past participle enjoyed)

1. (transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.

   Enjoy your holidays!   I enjoy dancing.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC ↗, Canto XLVI, page 69 ↗:

     And we shall sit at endless feast,
     ⁠Enjoying each the other’s good;
     ⁠What vaster dream can hit the mood
     Of Love on earth?

2. (transitive) To have the use or benefit of something.

   I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Numbers 36:8 ↗:

     that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers

3. (intransitive, India) To be satisfied or receive pleasure.

   I enjoyed a lot.

4. (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:

     Never did thy Beautie […] so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.

• (receive pleasure or satisfaction) appreciate, delight in, rejoice, relish
• (have sexual intercourse with) coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

• French: (with a noun) profiter de, jouir de, (with a verb) apprécier, prendre plaisir
• German: genießen, erfreuen
• Italian: godere, fare con piacere, gioire, divertirsi
• Portuguese: aproveitar, desfrutar, gozar, curtir, apreciar
• Russian: наслажда́ться
• Spanish: disfrutar, gozar

• French: jouir de
• German: genießen
• Italian: usufruire, godere, beneficiare
• Portuguese: aproveitar, gozar, desfrutar
• Russian: по́льзоваться
• Spanish: disfrutar, gozar, aprovechar