delight
Joy; pleasure.
Noun 2 meanings
Joy; pleasure.
Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
Verb 2 meanings
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
“A beautiful landscape delights the eye.”
To have or take great pleasure.
Etymology
Attested from the 13th century, from Middle English delite, from Old French deleiter, deliter, from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight, please”), frequentative of dēlicere (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin.
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DELIGHT at a glance
DELIGHT has 7 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (D 2 + E 1 + L 1 + I 1 + G 2 + H 4 + T 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,325 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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