(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If something gives you ~, you get a feeling of happiness, satisfaction, or enjoyment from it.
Watching sport gave him great ~...
Everybody takes ~ in eating...
N-UNCOUNT: oft N from/in n/-ing
2.
Pleasure is the activity of enjoying yourself, especially rather than working or doing what you have a duty to do.
He mixed business and ~ in a perfect and dynamic way...
I read for ~.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
A ~ is an activity, experience or aspect of something that you find very enjoyable or satisfying.
Watching TV is our only ~.
...the ~ of seeing a smiling face.
N-COUNT: oft N of n/-ing
4.
If you meet someone for the first time, you can say, as a way of being polite, that it is a ~ to meet them. You can also ask for the ~ of someone’s company as a polite and formal way of inviting them somewhere.
‘A ~ to meet you, sir,’ he said...
CONVENTION politeness
5.
You can say ‘It’s a ~’ or ‘My ~’ as a polite way of replying to someone who has just thanked you for doing something.
‘Thanks very much anyhow.’—‘It’s a ~.’
CONVENTION formulae