delight
- A strong feeling of pleasure, joy, or satisfaction.
- As a verb: to please someone greatly or to take great pleasure in something.
In a sentence
- The children squealed with delight when they spotted the rainbow after the storm.
- She took great delight in arranging elaborate dinner parties for her friends.
Usage note. Note that the '-gh-' in 'delight' is silent and etymologically misleading — the word is unrelated to 'light'; it derives from Latin 'delectare', not any Old English root.
Where it comes from
English delight — “strong pleasure or joy” · entered English 13th c.
From Old French 'delit', derived from the verb 'delitier', which came from Latin 'delectare' meaning 'to charm' or 'to please', a frequentative form of 'delicere' (to allure). It entered Middle English in the 13th century. The modern spelling with '-gh-' was influenced by analogy with unrelated words like 'light' and 'night' (source: Oxford, Etymonline).