delight

«delight» in Mova's school dictionary: a feeling of great happiness and pleasure — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (delight, delights); verb (delight, delights, delighted, delighting)

meaning for a pupil

1) Delight is a feeling of great happiness and pleasure. tree →

2) A delight is something or someone that gives great pleasure. tree →

3) (verb) To delight someone is to make them very happy. tree →

4) (verb) To delight in something is to enjoy it very much, sometimes in a mean way. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories, delight shows a character's joy: «squealed with delight», «to her delight». Teachers say «a delight to teach» on reports. Turkish delight is a sweet. Common phrases: «to my delight», «squeal with delight», «take delight in», «delight in», «a delight to», «Turkish delight».

examples

• The children screamed with delight on the roller coaster. tree →
• To my delight, the snow was still there in the morning. tree →
• Your daughter is a delight to have in class. tree →
• The magician delighted the audience with his tricks. tree →
• The puppy delights in chewing shoes. tree →
• The garden was full of summer delights. tree →
• Edmund ate the Turkish delight in the Narnia story. tree →
• We were delighted to win the cup. tree →
• To his delight it seemed thick and stout. tree →

note

As a feeling, «delight» is uncountable (filled with delight); as a pleasing thing it is countable (the delights of the seaside). The adjective «delighted» means very pleased; «delightful» means very pleasant. Trap: «delighted at/with/by», and «delight in doing».

In the corpora

• The Mole falls over backwards in delight and praises the Rat's clever step-by-step thinking at great length.
• And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter.
• He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.
• Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
• I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «delight» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.