How do you use Pleasance in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like retreat or pleasure, plus the exact meaning.
Pleasance in a sentence
Pleasance meaning
- A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden.
- Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy.
- The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight.
Using Pleasance
- The main meaning on this page is: A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden. | Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy. | The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight.
- Useful related words include: retreat, pleasure, feeling, pain.
- In the example corpus, pleasance often appears in combinations such as: the pleasance, pleasance was.
Context around Pleasance
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pleasance
- In this selection, "pleasance" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, david, venue, bags and managing stand out and add context to how "pleasance" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include at the pleasance venue in and david pleasance managing director. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pleasance" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pleasance
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
David Pleasance, managing director of Commodore UK, citation described the A600 as a 'complete and utter screw-up'. (18 words)
Shepherd Chartered Surveyors, which is conducting the auction, emphasised the police box, on The Pleasance in Edinburgh, is being sold as a “moveable item”. (24 words)
It’s no surprise that the Pleasance bags some of the best – its sister venue in Edinburgh is one of the main venues for Fringe performances. (26 words)
Writer and director David, who wrote the script five years ago, put on his version of the Trainspotting sequel at the Pleasance venue in the capital to sell-out shows last August, with Welsh himself flying in to watch. (39 words)
Surrounded by two diamond-shaped moats with its own dock, the Pleasance was positioned on the far side of the Great Mere and had to be reached by boat. (29 words)
Henry V also used Kenilworth extensively, but preferred to stay in the Pleasance, the mock castle he had built on the other side of the Great Mere. (27 words)
Example sentences (6)
Writer and director David, who wrote the script five years ago, put on his version of the Trainspotting sequel at the Pleasance venue in the capital to sell-out shows last August, with Welsh himself flying in to watch.
Shepherd Chartered Surveyors, which is conducting the auction, emphasised the police box, on The Pleasance in Edinburgh, is being sold as a “moveable item”.
It’s no surprise that the Pleasance bags some of the best – its sister venue in Edinburgh is one of the main venues for Fringe performances.
David Pleasance, managing director of Commodore UK, citation described the A600 as a 'complete and utter screw-up'.
Henry V also used Kenilworth extensively, but preferred to stay in the Pleasance, the mock castle he had built on the other side of the Great Mere.
Surrounded by two diamond-shaped moats with its own dock, the Pleasance was positioned on the far side of the Great Mere and had to be reached by boat.
Common combinations with pleasance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: