Welcome vs Enjoy - What's the difference?
welcome | enjoy |
To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".
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, passage=But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,
To accept something willingly or gladly.
Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.
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*(William Cowper) (1731-1800)
*:When the glad soul is made Heaven's welcome guest.
Producing gladness.
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, title= Free to have or enjoy gratuitously.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.
The utterance of such a greeting.
Kind reception of a guest or newcomer.
* Shenstone
* South
To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To have the use or benefit of something.
* Bible, Numbers xxxvi. 8
* 1988 , Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays
To have sexual intercourse with.
As verbs the difference between welcome and enjoy
is that welcome is to affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "welcome!" while enjoy is to receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.As an interjection welcome
is .As an adjective welcome
is whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.As a noun welcome
is the act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "welcome!"; reception.welcome
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Verb
(welcom)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“A very welcome , kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.
Noun
(en noun)- We entered the house and found a ready welcome .
- his warmest welcome at an inn
- Truth finds an entrance and a welcome too.
Derived terms
* wear out one's welcome * welcome wagon * you're welcome 1000 English basic wordsenjoy
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Verb
(en verb)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
- that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
- This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
- (Milton)