Plaisir is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Plaisir meaning
A commune of Yvelines department, France.
Using Plaisir
- The main meaning on this page is: A commune of Yvelines department, France.
Context around Plaisir
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Plaisir
- In this selection, "plaisir" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 32.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, enjoyment, hotel, 1952 and fragments stand out and add context to how "plaisir" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include human enjoyment plaisir and jouissance and invention du plaisir fragments cyréaniques. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "plaisir" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with plaisir
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In the 18th century, focus shifted to the experience of hearing music, and thus to questions about its beauty and human enjoyment ( plaisir and jouissance ) of music. (27 words)
Kubrick noted how in Ophuls' films "the camera went through every wall and every floor".sfn He once named Ophüls' Le Plaisir (1952) as his favorite film. (27 words)
I had been working on a feature on Grande Riviere Estate in the north-eastern part of Trinidad, focusing on the newly-opened Mt Plaisir Hotel and the leatherback turtles nesting right on its doorstep. (35 words)
The issue of free love has a dedicated treatment in the work of French anarcho- hedonist philosopher Michel Onfray in such works as Théorie du corps amoureux : pour une érotique solaire (2000) and L'invention du plaisir : fragments cyréaniques (2002). (40 words)
I had been working on a feature on Grande Riviere Estate in the north-eastern part of Trinidad, focusing on the newly-opened Mt Plaisir Hotel and the leatherback turtles nesting right on its doorstep. (35 words)
In the 18th century, focus shifted to the experience of hearing music, and thus to questions about its beauty and human enjoyment ( plaisir and jouissance ) of music. (27 words)
Example sentences (4)
I had been working on a feature on Grande Riviere Estate in the north-eastern part of Trinidad, focusing on the newly-opened Mt Plaisir Hotel and the leatherback turtles nesting right on its doorstep.
In the 18th century, focus shifted to the experience of hearing music, and thus to questions about its beauty and human enjoyment ( plaisir and jouissance ) of music.
Kubrick noted how in Ophuls' films "the camera went through every wall and every floor".sfn He once named Ophüls' Le Plaisir (1952) as his favorite film.
The issue of free love has a dedicated treatment in the work of French anarcho- hedonist philosopher Michel Onfray in such works as Théorie du corps amoureux : pour une érotique solaire (2000) and L'invention du plaisir : fragments cyréaniques (2002).