Leisure
['leʒə] or ['liʒɚ]
Definition
(noun.) freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity; 'he lacked the leisure for golf'.
(noun.) time available for ease and relaxation; 'his job left him little leisure'.
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Definition
(n.) Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.
(n.) Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
(a.) Unemployed; as, leisure hours.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Spare hours, spare time, time to spare.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Freedom, vacation, opportunity, convenience, ease, quiet, retirement,spare_time, unoccupied_time
ANT:Constraint, employment, occupation, distraction, labor, bustle, toil, business,absorption, engagement
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Definition
n. time free from employment: freedom from occupation convenient opportunity ease.—adj. unoccupied.—adj. Lei′sured not occupied with business.—adj. and adv. Lei′surely not hasty or hastily.—At leisure At one's leisure free from occupation at one's ease or convenience.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
From Eng., lazy, and sure; assured laziness.
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Examples
- You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He studies her at his leisure, not speaking for a time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So they might hope to strike down France at one blow, and deal at their leisure with Russia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I shall certainly be at leisure. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It was only of late years that she had had leisure enough in her life to go into society; and as society she did not enjoy it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- My illness has made me think It has given me leisure and calmness for serious recollection. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Reflect, afterwards when--when you are at leisure, and your conscience will withdraw this accusation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But Jane was to go home with her, and at Longbourn there would be leisure enough for observation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The comfort of it in her hours of leisure was extreme. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It is she who remains and suffers--and has the leisure to think, and brood, and remember. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- However, we will go back at our leisure and verify it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Politics, business, recreation, art, science, the learned professions, polite intercourse, leisure, represent such interests. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This done, the postboy drove off; Giles, Mr. Maylie, and Oliver, followed at their leisure. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It happened that at the time I was more or less at leisure, because I had just finished working on the carbon-button telephone, and this electric-light idea took possession of me. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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