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Pleasance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Pleasance has 2 senses
- pleasance(n = noun.location) Array - a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion; Array is a kind of retreat
- pleasance(n = noun.feeling) pleasure - a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure" is a kind of feeling
has particulars: delectation, delight, enjoyment, pleasantness, comfort, sexual pleasure
Derived form adjective pleasant1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Pleasance, n. [F. plaisance. See Please.].
- Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [1913 Webster]
- A secluded part of a garden. [1913 Webster]"The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Pleasance, n. a secluded enclosure or part of a garden, esp. one attached to a large house.
Etymology
ME f. OF plaisance (as PLEASANT)
THESAURUS
Pleasance
affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, bliss, blissfulness, common, commons, compatibility, complaisance, congeniality, cordiality, enjoyableness, felicitousness, geniality, goodliness, goodness, graciousness, gratefulness, harmoniousness, mellifluousness, mellowness, niceness, paradise, park, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasure garden, pleasure ground, pleasurefulness, public park, rapport, sweetness, sweetness and light, welcomeness
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