Etimology
From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- + joy.
verb
enjoy (third-person singular simple present enjoys, present participle enjoying, simple past and past participle enjoyed)
(transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
(transitive) To have the use or benefit of something.
(intransitive, India) To be satisfied or receive pleasure.
(transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
Examples
Enjoy your holidays! I enjoy dancing.
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
I enjoyed a lot.
Never did thy Beautie […] so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.
Related words
synonyms
(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