leisureとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, General Australian, General South African)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈlɛʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈliːʒə(ɹ)/ (extremely old fashioned)
  • 韻: -ɛʒə(ɹ)
• (米国発音, Canada)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈliːʒəɹ/
  • 韻: -iːʒə(ɹ)
  • (まれに) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛʒəɹ/

名詞

leisure (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 leisures)

1. Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
2. Free time, time free from work or duties.
   • 1672, William Temple, An Essay Upon the Original and Nature of Government

     The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 11, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 20599507:

     Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.

   • 1908, William David Ross (translator), Aristotle, Metaphysics

     This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure.

3. Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
   • 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 731548838:

     He sigh'd, and had no leisure more to say.

関連する語

• at leisure
• leisurely