delight. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

delight

SYLLABICATION:	de·light
PRONUNCIATION:	d-lt
NOUN:	1. Great pleasure; joy. 2. Something that gives great pleasure or enjoyment.
VERB:	Inflected forms: de·light·ed, de·light·ing, de·lights
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To take great pleasure or joy: delights in taking long walks. 2. To give great pleasure or joy: an old movie that still delights.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	To please greatly. See synonyms at please.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English delit, from Old French, a pleasure, from delitier, to please, charm, from Latin dlectre : d-, intensive pref.; see de– + lactre, frequentative of lacere, to entice.


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