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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion;

2. a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience;
- Example: "he was tingling with pleasure"
[syn: pleasure, pleasance]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pleasance \Pleas"ance\, n. [F. plaisance. See Please.]
   1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic]
      --Shak. "Full great pleasance." --Chaucer. "A realm of
      pleasance." --Tennyson.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic]
      [1913 Webster]

            The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. --Ruskin.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pleasance
    n 1: a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached
         to a mansion
    2: a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people
       desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure" [syn:
       pleasure, pleasance] [ant: pain, painfulness]