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Audio Help [pleez] Pronunciation Key adverb, verb, pleased, pleas·ing.

–adverb

1.	(used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?

–verb (used with object)

2.	to act to the pleasure or satisfaction of: to please the public.

3.	to be the pleasure or will of: May it please your Majesty.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to like, wish, or feel inclined: Go where you please.

5.	to give pleasure or satisfaction; be agreeable: manners that please.

—Idiom

if you please,

a.	if it be your pleasure; if you like or prefer.

b.	(used as an exclamation expressing astonishment, indignation, etc.): The missing letter was in his pocket, if you please!

[Origin: 1275–1325; (v.) ME plesen, plaisen < MF plaisir ≪ L placére to please, seem good (see placid); the use of please with requests, etc., is presumably a reduction of the clause (it) please you may it please you, later reinforced by imper. use of intransit. please to be pleased, wish

]

—Related forms

pleas·a·ble, adjective

pleas·ed·ly

Audio Help [plee-zid-lee, pleezd-] Pronunciation Key, adverb

pleas·ed·ness, noun

pleaser, noun

—Synonyms 4. choose, desire, prefer.

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please Audio Help   (plēz) Pronunciation Key
v.   pleased, pleas·ing, pleas·es

v.   tr.

To give enjoyment, pleasure, or satisfaction to; make glad or contented.
To be the will or desire of: May it please the court to admit this firearm as evidence.

v. intr.

To give satisfaction or pleasure; be agreeable: waiters who try hard to please.
To have the will or desire; wish: Do as you please. Sit down, if you please.

adv.

If it is your desire or pleasure; if you please. Used in polite requests: Please stand back. Pay attention, please.
Yes. Used in polite affirmative replies to offers: May I help you? Please.

[Middle English plesen, from Old French plaisir; see pleasant.]

pleas'er n.

Synonyms: These verbs mean to give pleasure to: was pleased by their success; a gift that would delight any child; praise that gladdens the spirit; progress that gratified all concerned; compliments that tickle their vanity.
Antonym: displease

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pleased
adjective
1.	experiencing or manifesting pleasure [ant: displeased]
2.	feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; "proud of their child"

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
pleased adjective

happy; satisfied
Example: Aren't you pleased about moving house?; She was pleased with the dress.

Arabic:	مَسْرور، راضٍ، سَعيد
Chinese (Simplified):	满意的
Chinese (Traditional):	滿意的
Czech:	spokojený
Danish:	glad for; tilfreds med
Dutch:	blij, tevreden
Estonian:	rahul
Finnish:	tyytyväinen
French:	content
German:	zufrieden
Greek:	ευχαριστημένος, ικανοποιημένος
Hungarian:	(meg)elégedett
Icelandic:	ánægður
Indonesian:	puas
Italian:	contento, soddisfatto

Japanese:	満足した
Korean:	기쁜, 만족스러운
Latvian:	apmierināts
Lithuanian:	patenkintas
Norwegian:	glad, fornøyd
Polish:	zadowolony
Portuguese (Brazil):	contente
Portuguese (Portugal):	satisfeito
Romanian:	mulţumit
Russian:	довольный
Slovak:	potešený, spokojný
Slovenian:	zadovoljen
Spanish:	contento, satisfecho
Swedish:	nöjd, belåten
Turkish:	memnun

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Pleased

Please\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb. n. Pleasing.] [OE. plesen, OF. plaisir, fr. L. placere, akin to placare to reconcile. Cf. Complacent, Placable, Placid, Plea, Plead, Pleasure.]

1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.

I pray to God that it may plesen you. --Chaucer.

What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. --Milton.

2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will.

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. --Ps. cxxxv. 6.

A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech. --J. Edwards.

3. To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally. "It pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell." --Col. i. 19.

To-morrow, may it please you. --Shak.

To be pleased in or with, to have complacency in; to take pleasure in.

To be pleased to do a thing, to take pleasure in doing it; to have the will to do it; to think proper to do it. --Dryden.

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