PLEASE meaning: Expression of politeness in request

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word please:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

please: Merriam-Webster.com
please, please: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
please: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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PLease, Please, please: Wordnik
please: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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please: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
please: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
please: Infoplease Dictionary
Please, please: Dictionary.com
please (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
please: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Please (Matt Nathanson album), Please (Pam Tillis song), Please (Pet Shop Boys album), Please (Robin Gibb song), Please (Toni Braxton song), Please (U2 song), Please (album), Please (film), Please: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Please: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
please: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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please: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
please: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
please: Free Dictionary
please: Mnemonic Dictionary
please, please: Dictionary/thesaurus
please: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
Please (You Got That ...): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Please: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)

please: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

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Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

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Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

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PLEASE: Acronym Finder
please: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

please: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, ergative) To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
▸ adverb:  Used to make a polite request.
▸ adverb:  Used as an affirmative to an offer.
▸ adverb:  An expression of annoyance, impatience or exasperation.

Similar:

delight, pls., want, advise, help, hesitate, implore, wanna, kindly, need, more...

Opposite:

displease, annoy, irritate, upset, offend

Types:

pleases, more...

Phrases:

please god, please explain, Please Yourself, yes please, pretty please, more...

Adjectives:

token, quiet, more, hurry, your, turn, next, hard, common, pretty, wait

Colors:

sky blue, pastel pink, lavender, mint green, soft peach, more...

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