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delight English

Meaning delight meaning

What does delight mean?
Definitions in simple English

delight

Delight is the feeling of being very happy. There was a real sense of relief when the war ended and great delight that it had stopped. They laughed with delight because he was their favorite uncle. To her surprise and delight, she was right. She took great delight in being able to play the piano again. A delight is something that makes you feel very happy. Your children are such a delight.

delight

If you delight somebody, you make them feel very happy. We delight in the beauty around us. The gift delighted her.

delight

a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction his delight to see her was obvious to all (= please) give pleasure to or be pleasing to These colors please the senses a pleasing sensation take delight in he delights in his granddaughter (= joy, pleasure) something or someone that provides a source of happiness a joy to behold the pleasure of his company the new car is a delight (= enchant) hold spellbound

Synonyms delight synonyms

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Topics delight topics

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Conjugation delight conjugation

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delight · verb

Examples delight examples

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Simple sentences

Censorious people delight in casting blame.
I read your new book with real delight.
The sight sent chills of delight up my spine.
The gifts will delight the children.
Grandmother takes great delight in watching television.
To her delight, she got through the examination.
To see the sunrise from a mountaintop is a delight.
Such was her delight that she fainted.
Great was the delight of his parents.
Guests always bring delight; if it is not when coming, then it is when leaving.
The people we meet in books can delight us either because they resemble the friends we hold dear in real life, or because they are unfamiliar people that we are pleased to get to know.
She would delight in catching flies and tearing off their wings.
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
The little girl took great delight in giving her new puppy a bath.
Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailor take warning.
Much to my delight, Mary brought me a music box from Boston as a gift.
When she was a kid, Mary used to take great delight in dressing her little brother up as a girl.

Movie subtitles

Oh, what a delight.
You, taking delight in your grief.
Allow me to express my delight over your happiness now.
Why, you're the golden girl, Tracy, full of life and warmth and delight.
O ye whom Allah gave the gift of sight. to fill your eyes with beauty and delight. spare me a thought to whom your wondrous world. is but a city of eternal night.
And perhaps this will delight you too.
I still can remember my delight, unpacking, getting ready for dinner.
Well, let's go, moon of my delight. I am starved.
My friends, she was a vision of delight.
Eat it yourself, idiot! - And delight you by dying?
The man is a Freudian delight.
The delight is completely mine, madame.
Well I'm delight.
I'm delight for yourself as well as for your wife.
It would delight his soul to have us drink it, especially on this day.
I'll give him a toy to delight his heart so full of bizarre complications that he'll forget all about the first toy, that letter.
My dear, he's positively the chambermaid's delight.
Buck Winston, the chambermaid's delight.
My room. I still can remember my delight, unpacking, getting ready for dinner.
Well, let's go, moon of my delight.
Oh a delight to be of any use, Mr. Cosgrave.
It's known as the Rose of Delight.
We bring to this new world all the joy, the dexterity the romance of the old, to please, astonish and delight you.
It's that my father was asking who I take after about delight in making jokes.
I'm expressing my delight.
The delight of all the crowned heads of Europe?
Oh, darling, they're wild with delight.
Topaze, you delight me.
The very lovely and serene princess of all delight.
As for her, her delight was indescribably childlike.
My only delight is a pleasant drive.
The flame that once was our delight and menace in our chests no longer burns.
A delight to have you.
The Red Beard chooses well, flower of delight.
A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk. would be a sheer delight.
To editors like you, a publisher's delight.
That would be a delight on a meatless meal day.
She was hysterical with delight.

News and current affairs

A thirst for knowledge, a delight in engaging with the world, and empathy with people from different cultures are qualities that can ensure diversity in unity, and unity in diversity.
To the surprise and delight of the world, the changes did take place peacefully almost everywhere.
We frequently met at conferences, where it was always a delight to hear him speak Russian - a Russian that had the accent and elegance of Tolstoi and Pushkin, not the degraded Russian bark of Vladimir Putin.
This is the vengeful side of our fawning, as though the humiliation of worshipping idols must be balanced by our delight in their downfall.
The euro's depreciation has been greeted with delight by Europe's business leaders.
Spain's victory was one of the rare occasions that Catalonians, Castillians, Basques, and Andalusians erupted together in an explosion of patriotic delight.

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