Usually means: Enjoyment derived from satisfying desires.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word pleasure:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleasure: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pleasure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pleasure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pleasure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pleasure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pleasure, pleasure: Wordnik
  7. pleasure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pleasure: Wiktionary
  9. pleasure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pleasure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pleasure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pleasure, pleasure: Dictionary.com
  13. pleasure (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pleasure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pleasure (American band), Pleasure (EP), Pleasure (Feist album), Pleasure (Marion Meadows album), Pleasure (Norwegian band), Pleasure (Ohio Players album), Pleasure (band), Pleasure, The Pleasure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pleasure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pleasure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pleasure: Rhymezone
  19. pleasure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pleasure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Pleasure: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Pleasure: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. pleasure: Free Dictionary
  24. pleasure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pleasure: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. pleasure: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleasure: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleasure: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleasure: Idioms
  2. pleasure: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleasure, pleasure: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Pleasure: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pleasured as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.
noun:  (countable) A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
noun:  (uncountable) Sexual enjoyment.
noun:  (uncountable) One's preference.
noun:  (formal, uncountable) The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
verb:  (transitive) To give or afford pleasure to.
verb:  (transitive) To give sexual pleasure to.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.

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