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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#m1)

2) A delight is something or someone that gives great pleasure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#m2)

3) (verb) To delight someone is to make them very happy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#m3)

4) (verb) To delight in something is to enjoy it very much, sometimes in a mean way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#x1)
- To my delight, the snow was still there in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#x2)
- Your daughter is a delight to have in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#x3)
- The magician delighted the audience with his tricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#x4)
- The puppy delights in chewing shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#x5)
- The garden was full of summer delights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#x6)
- Edmund ate the Turkish delight in the Narnia story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#x7)
- We were delighted to win the cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#x8)
- To his delight it seemed thick and stout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/12/)
- [And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1074/)
- [He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.679/)
- [Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1206/)
- [I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.88/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «delight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.