Leisure

Definitions: Leisure

Leisure

Adjective

1. Free from duties or responsibilities; "he writes in his leisure hours"; "life as it ought to be for the leisure classes"- J.J.Chapman; "even the artist and the sculptor were not regarded...as leisured men"- Ida Craven.

Noun

1. Time available for ease and relaxation; "his job left him little leisure".

2. Freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity; "he lacked the leisure for golf".

Date "leisure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	From Eng., lazy, and sure; assured laziness. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
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simple:Leisure

Leisure time is time in which there is no job to do, or at least not one that needs doing "right-a-way". This time can be used to do almost anything that brings rest and relaxation.

This time can be spent on two main kinds of leisure:

Active leisure, active recreation, leisure sport (going to the gym, etc.; sport for fun rather than for competition); staves off boredom.

Lounging, "doing nothing": the kind of 'reclining-in-the-sun' type leisure, which implies going to sleep or a near-sleep lounging state. In a way it is "wasting time", but not really, if you like it (if not, it is called boredom).

Sport fishing may fall in both categories, depending on how active one is.

A more recent concept is that of quality time.

Synonyms: Leisure

Synonyms: leisure(a) (adj), leisured (adj), leisure time (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Relaxation; leisure.
Inactivity	Adverb: inactively; Adjective: at leisure.
Lateness	Slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure; ex post facto; sine die.
Leisure	Verb: have leisure; Noun: take one's time, take one's leisure, take one's ease; repose; move slowly; while away the time; (inaction); be master of one's time, be an idle man.
	Noun: leisure; convenience; spare time, spare hours, spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one's hands; holiday, relaxation; (rest); otium cum dignitate, ease.
	Adjective: leisure, leisurely; slow; deliberate, quiet, calm, undisturbed; at leisure, at one's ease, at loose ends, at a loose end.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Mr. Murphy, what attracts you to the leisure industry? (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) This suit is for leisure. But many times I wear it to get down to business. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)
Clever	Wealth buys leisure, but not wisdom. (references; author: unknown) The real problem concerning your leisure is how to keep other people from using it. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Leisure (1966) Better Use of Leisure Time (1950) Repent at Leisure (1941) Heroes at Leisure (1939) Ladies of Leisure (1930)
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Domain	Title
References	Admiral Leisure World Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Alfa Leisure, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Allied Leisure Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Bowness Leisure Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Brands Hatch Leisure PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	100 Best Family Resorts in North America: 100 Quality Resorts With Leisure Activities for Children and Adults (100 Best Family Resorts in North ameri (reference) Leisure Arts' Best 250 Christmas Quickies (reference) Summer Cottages in the White Mountains: The Architecture of Leisure and Recreation, 1870 to 1930 (reference) The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift Editions) (reference) The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Group Leisure (reference) Holiday & Leisure World (reference) House & Leisure (reference) Journal Of Hospitality & Leisure Marketing (reference) Journal Of Leisure Property (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Supreme Beings of Leisure - Strangelove Addiction (DVD Single) (reference) Doctor Who - The Leisure Hive (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Supreme Beings of Leisure (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Leisure Suit Larry's Ultimate Pleasure Pack (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Having glued a hapless whitefly to a leaf, the big-eyed bug can devour its prey at its leisure. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..		Leisure and play.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Green walls that make a living-room where leisure lives with sunshine bloom.Credit: Library of Congress.		One of our leisure class.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Arab leisure in a coffee house of Mosul.Credit: Library of Congress.		District of Columbia. White officers of 4th U.S. Colored Infantry at leisure, Fort Slocum.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Washington, D.C. Drum Corps of 10th Veteran Reserve Corps at leisure.Credit: Library of Congress.		Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. Coast Guard training station, Manhattan Beach, New York, is a tough one with a full schedule; recreation is not neglected. Dances and singing take up most of the leisure in the evening. Homer Smith, tenor of t.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Granger homesteaders making a survey of their leisure hours. Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress.		Electric Institute of Washington. Copy of Leisure with electricity advertisement.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Aristotle	The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin	Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Henry David Thoreau	He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
	The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
Herman Melville	They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Oscar Wilde	Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
Ovid	In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Seneca	Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Thomas Hobbes	Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
William Hazlitt	The busier we are the more leisure we have.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Secondly, When the prince hinders the legislative from assembling in its due time, or from acting freely, pursuant to those ends for which it was constituted, the legislative is altered: for it is not a certain number of men, no, nor their meeting, unless they have also freedom of debating, and leisure of perfecting, what is for the good of the society, wherein the legislative consists: when these are taken away or altered, so as to deprive the society of the due exercise of their power, the legislative is truly altered; for it is not names that constitute governments, but the use and exercise of those powers that were intended to accompany them; so that he, who takes away the freedom, or hinders the acting of the legislative in its due seasons, in effect takes away the legislative, and puts an end to the government. (Second Treatise of Government)
United Nations	1948	Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	She hardly wished to have more leisure for them.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	As his growing fortune gave him more leisure, it seemed that he profited by it to cultivate his mind.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	But his long spell of leisure and liberty was drawing to its end.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have Some patient leisure to excuse myself.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	And this puts me in mind of an amusement wherein I spent many of my leisure hours.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Sometimes, when at leisure, he amused himself all day in the woods with a pocket pistol, firing salutes to himself at regular intervals as he walked.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In 1991, 54 percent of adults reported little or no regular leisure physical activity. (references)
		These methods should be applicable to both work and leisure time measurements and provide direct quantitative estimates of activity. (references)
		Significant amounts of acoustic energy reaching the ear will create damage--at work, at school, at home, or during leisure activities. (references)
Business		European destinations account for about 60 percent of all leisure trip departures. (references)
		In 1999, about 40 percent of foreign leisure travel took place in June, July and August. (references)
		In 1999, Finns took over 6.1 million trips aboard out of which 2.1 million were leisure trips. (references)
Economic History	Ireland	Continuing growth of special-interest tourism includes activities such as cycling, trekking and water-based leisure pursuits. (references)
	Mauritius	Opportunities for U.S. firms exist in restaurant and food-processing equipment, hotel design consulting, and leisure projects. (references)
	India	The current trend for shopping centers in major Indian cities is integration of shopping with entertainment and leisure activities. (references)
Travel	Denmark	Danes treasure their leisure time, most of which is spent with the family. (references)
	Australia	A valid U.S. passport and either a visa or an Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) are required for Americans traveling to Australia for business and/or leisure. (references)
	Germany	Visas are not required for U.S. passport holders on business (and leisure) travel spending fewer than 90 days in Germany; for longer stays, travelers are encouraged to apply to the German Embassy or German Consulates in advance of travel (see addresses in Appendix E, part VII). (references)
Worker Rights	Congo	The Labor Code stipulates that overtime must be paid for all work in excess of 40 hours per week and that regular days of leisure must be granted by employers. (references)
	India	The directive principles of the Constitution declare that "the State shall endeavor to secure...to all workers...a living wage, conditions of work ensuring a decent standard of life and full enjoyment of leisure and social and cultural opportunities." Laws set minimum wages, hours of work, and safety and health standards. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness.
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	Screw-off cap for company, boxed wine for leisure.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Their importance will recall them to your attention, and I trust that the progress already made in the most arduous arrangements of the Government will afford you leisure to resume them to advantage.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	We do not intend to live in the midst of abundance, isolated from neighbors and nature, confined by blighted cities and bleak suburbs, stunted by a poverty of learning and an emptiness of leisure.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Leisure" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.38% of the time. "Leisure" is used about 2,881 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.38%	2,863	3,243
Noun (proper)	0.62%	18	82,615
Total	100.00%	2,881	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "leisure" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Leisure	Last name	1,000	14,261
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "leisure": a life of leisure ♦ at leisure ♦ at one's leisure ♦ at your leisure ♦ be at leisure ♦ do smth. at leisure ♦ gentleman of leisure ♦ Leisure Activities ♦ leisure boat ♦ leisure center ♦ Leisure City ♦ leisure clothes ♦ leisure hours ♦ Leisure Knoll ♦ leisure problem ♦ leisure suit ♦ leisure time ♦ Leisure Village ♦ Leisure Village East ♦ leisure wear ♦ of leisure. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "leisure": leisure-agent, leisure-based, leisure-centre, leisure-class, leisure-image, leisure-orientated, leisure-park, leisure-preferring, leisure-products, leisure-related, leisure-software, leisure-time, leisure-time activity, leisure-type, leisure-wear.
	Ending with "leisure": gentleman-of-leisure, income-leisure, services-leisure, work-leisure.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "leisure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nge, kohë e lirë. (various references)

Arabic		‏فارغ (barren, blank, empty, flatulent, hollow, idle, inane, meaningless, pointless, senseless, silly, stupid, vacuous, vain, windy), ‏فراغ (air, blank, completion, emptiness, finishing, free time, gap, idleness, inane, inanity, nothingness, space, spare time, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void), ‏هوينا (slowness), ‏وقت الفراغ, ‏راحة (comfort, cosiness, ease, grace, letup, lie, pause, recuperation, relief, repose, rest, stop). (various references)

Bulgarian		свободно време (disengagement, ease, leeway, leisure time, spare time), свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), отдих (relaxation, repose, reprieve, respite, rest, truce), незаетост (inoccupation, off), незает (free, idle, off, unappropriated, unemployed, vacant). (various references)

Chinese		�'暇 , 閑 (enclosure, not busy, to be unoccupied, to stay idle), 遑 , 空 (air, emptied, empty, in vain, sky), 暇 , 休闲. (various references)

Czech		volno (free, free day, free time, holiday, off, off day, playtime, vacancy, vacation), volný èas (spare time). (various references)

Danish		fritid (leisure time, time off, unoccupied time). (various references)

Dutch		vrije tijd (free time, idle time, leisure time, time off, unoccupied time). (various references)

Farsi		فرصت (Breather, Chance, Opportunity, Season, Shot, Space, Start, Time, Vantage), فراغت (Opportunity, Relief), مجال (Chance, Opportunity, Room, Time), وقت کافی , تن اساءی (Indolence, Lounge), اسودگی (Comfort, Convenience, Ease, Relief, Repose). (various references)

Finnish		vapaa-aika (leisure time, spare time, time off). (various references)

French		loisir (leisure time). (various references)

German		muße (ease, idleness), freizeit (free time, idle time, leisure time, spare time, time off). (various references)

Greek		ελεύθερος χρόνος (leisure time, time off, unoccupied time). (various references)

Hebrew		שעות �"פ� אי, ש�"ות (pause, stay, time), פ� אי (spare time). (various references)

Hungarian		szabad (aerial, disengaged, exposed, fetterless, footloose, franchised, frank, free, free for all, freehold, independent, licit, permissible, to give sy line enough, unbound, unchecked, unimpeded, vacant). (various references)

Indonesian		waktu luang (spare time), kelapangan (ease, emptiness, feel relieved, vacuity). (various references)

Italian		tempo libero (free, free time, idle time, leisure time, spare, spare time, time off), ozio (idleness, laziness, sloth). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		閑散 (inactivity, quiet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		レジャー , ひま (castor oil plant, farewell, free time, leave, spare time), の�"どり (tranquility), か�"さ�" (change, conversion, exchange, inactivity, joys and sorrows, quiet, sweetness and bitterness), か�"か (connivance, correction, crucible, cyclization, dried fruit, fighting, influence, inspiration, lonely people, pot, reform, separation from the world, shield and halberd, shutting one's eyes to, under the jurisdiction of, war, widow and widower), か�"じつ�'つ, か�" (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush), いとま (farewell, free time, leave, spare time), よか (expected price, leisure time, preparatory course, preparatory department, probableprice, spare time), てすき (being free, handmade paper, not busy, spare or free time, unengaged), てあき (being free, not busy, unengaged). (various references)

Korean		여가. (various references)

Manx		soccar (association football, comfort, comfortableness, ease), corsoie. (various references)

Norwegian		fritid. (various references)

Pig Latin		eisurelay

Portuguese		lazer (laze, lounge), pescar com lança dentada, descanso (bracket, break, crutch, halt, landing, laystall, lounge, pillow, pillow block, placement, quiescence, quiescency, recumbence, recumbency, refreshment, relaxation, repose, requiem, respite, rest, resting, saddle, sleep, stand, time out, touch down, truce), ócio (laze, laziness). (various references)

Romanian		timp liber, tihnã (comfort, ease, easiness, quiet, rest), rãgaz (dalliance, interregnum, interruption, pause, peace, reprieve, respite, rest, time, truce), destindere (rebound, recoil, recreation, relaxation). (various references)

Russian		досуг (ease). (various references)

Scottish		fois (peace, rest), athais (nf. leisure). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ležeran (comfortable, easygoing, laid back, leisurely, mellow, relaxed), slobodno vreme (leisure time, spare time), slobodan (footloose, free, indipendent, leisured, liberal, off, open, promiscuous, sightly, spare, through, unconstrained), razonoda (amusement, avocation, dalliance, diversion, divertissement, pastime, recreation, relaxation), dokon (leisured), dokolica (idle). (various references)

Spanish		ocio (leisure time, travel), tiempo libre (free time, idle time, leisure time, time off, unoccupied time). (various references)

Swedish		fritid (leisure hours, leisure time, playtime, spare time, time off). (various references)

Thai		เพื่อความบันเทิง, เกี่ยวกับเวลาว่าง, เวลาว่าง. (various references)

Turkish		uygun zaman (occasion, psychologic moment, psychological moment, time), serbest (at large, at liberty, cavalier, disengaged, easy, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, freehearted, freewheeling, go-as-you-please, in the clear, independent, latitudinarian, liberal, loose, open, permissive, quit, unattached, unbound, unchecked, unconfined, unconstrained, unencumbered, unengaged, unfettered, unhampered, unrestrained, unrestricted, unshackled, untrammelled), rahat (at ease, at rest, cavalier, comfort, comfortable, comfy, complacent, composure, cosy, cushioned, cushy, ease, easy, facile, luxurious, peace, rest, restful, serene, snug, unconstrained, unconventional, undisturbed, unembarassed, untroubled), gündelik (casual, casually, daily, daily fee, day-to-day money, everyday, per diem, quotidian, ready, workaday), boş vakit (spare time), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), acelesi olmama. (various references)

Ukranian		вільний час (off, spare time), дозвілля (avocations, ease). (various references)

Vietnamese		lúc thư nh� n, thì giờ rỗi rãi. (various references)

Welsh		seibiant (respite), saib (pause, rest), hamdden (respite). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	skhole. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	otio, otium, supervacuitas, vacuitatem, vacuitatis. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	leisir. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 6, Verse 31
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai eipen autoiV deute umeiV autoi kat idian eiV erhmon topon kai anapauesqe oligon hsan gar oi ercomenoi kai oi upagonteV polloi kai oude fagein hukairoun
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et ait illis venite seorsum in desertum locum et requiescite pusillum erant enim qui veniebant et rediebant multi et nec manducandi spatium habebant
Old English	990	West Saxon	& he saigde heom. Cumeð & uten ganasundran on weste stowe. & us hwon resten. Soðlice manege wæren þe comen & agenhwærfden & ferst næfden þt hyo æten
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And he seide to hem, Come ye bi you silf in to a desert place; and reste ye a litil. For there were many that camen, and wenten ayen, and thei hadden not space to ete.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And he sayd vnto them: come ye aparte into the wyldernes and rest awhyle. For there were many comers and goers that they had no leasure so moche as to eate.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And he said to them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And he said to them, Come away by yourselves to a quiet place, and take a rest for a time. Because there were a great number coming and going, and they had no time even for food.
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Language	Mark Chapter 6, Verse 31
Cebuano	Ug siya miingon kanila, "Pangadto kamo nga kamokamo ra sa usa ka dapit nga awaaw, ug pamahulay kamog makadiyot." Kay daghan man ugod ang mga tawo nga nagpangadto-nganhi, ug si Jusu ug ang mga tinun-an halos makagayon bisan sa pagpangaon.
Croatian	I reèe im: "Hajdete i vi u osamu na samotno mjesto, i otpoèinite malo." Jer mnogo je svijeta dolazilo i odlazilo pa nisu imali kada ni jesti.
Danish	Og han siger til dem: "Kommer nu I med afsides til et øde Sted og hviler eder lidt;" thi der var mange, som gik til og fra, og de havde ikke engang Ro til at spise.
Dutch	En Hij zeide tot hen: Komt gijlieden in een woeste plaats hier alleen, en rust een weinig; want er waren velen, die kwamen en die gingen, en zij hadden zelfs geen gelegen tijd om te eten.
Finnish	Niin hän sanoi heille: "Tulkaa te yksinäisyyteen, autioon paikkaan, ja levähtäkää vähän". Sillä tulijoita ja menijöitä oli paljon, ja heillä ei ollut aikaa syödäkään.
French	Jésus leur dit: Venez � l`écart dans un lieu désert, et reposez-vous un peu. Car il y avait beaucoup d`allants et de venants, et ils n`avaient même pas le temps de manger.
Gaelic	Is thuirt e riutha: Thigibh a lethtaobh gu aite fas, agus leigibh ur n-anail airson beagan uine. Oir bha iad lionor an fheadhainn a bha tighinn `sa dol; agus cha robh uine aca air biadh fhein a ghabhail.
German	Und er sprach zu ihnen: Lasset uns besonders an eine wüste Stätte gehen und ruht ein wenig. Denn ihr waren viele, die ab und zu gingen; und sie hatten nicht Zeit genug, zu essen.
Haitian Creole	Lè sa a, te sitèlman gen moun ki t'ap ale vini, Jezi ak disip li yo pa t' menm gen tan pou yo manje. Se poutèt sa Jezi di disip li yo: -Ann al avè m' yon kote ki pa gen moun pou nou ka pran yon ti repo.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Banyak sekali orang yang datang dan pergi, sehingga untuk makan pun Yesus dan pengikut-pengikut-Nya tidak sempat. Sebab itu Yesus berkata kepada pengikut-pengikut-Nya, "Marilah kita pergi ke tempat yang sunyi, di mana kita bisa sendirian dan kalian dapat beristirahat sebentar."
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka kata Yesus kepada mereka itu, "Marilah kamu sendiri ke tempat yang sunyi, supaya memperhentikan lelahmu di situ." Karena banyak orang yang pergi datang, sehingga makan pun tiada sempat mereka itu.
Maori	Na ka mea ia ki a ratou, Haere mai koutou na na ki te koraha ki te wahi motu ke, kia ta ai te manawa: he tokomaha hoki e haere mai ana, e haere atu ana, no kihai rawa ratou i watea ki te kai.
Norwegian	Og han sa til dem: Kom nu I med mig avsides til et øde sted og hvil eder litt ut! For det var mange som gikk til og fra, og det blev ikke engang tid for dem til å få sig mat.
Rumanian	Isus le -a zis: ,,Veniyi singuri la o parte, kntr`un loc pustiu, wi odihniyi-vq puyin.`` Cqci erau mulyi cari veneau wi se duceau, wi ei n`aveau vreme nici sq mqnknce.
Russian	пО УЛБЪБМ ЙН: � ПК�"ЙФЕ ЧЩ П�"ОЙ Ч � ХУФЩООПЕ НЕУФП Й ПФ�"ПИОЙФЕ ОЕНОПЗП, --Й�'П НОПЗП �'ЩМП � ТЙИП�"СЭЙИ Й ПФИП�"СЭЙИ, ФБЛ ЮФП Й ЕУФШ ЙН �'ЩМП ОЕЛПЗ�"Б.
Shuar	Tura Untsurí shuar Táiniakui, niisha ankant ajastinniasha Yurumátniuncha tujinkiarmiayi. Tuma asamtai Jesus chichaak "Iijiai Wemí aents atsuiniamunam; nui ishichik ayamprarmi" Tímiayi.
Spanish	Él les dijo: --Venid vosotros aparte a un lugar desierto, y descansad un poco. Porque eran muchos los que iban y venían, y ni siquiera tenían oportunidad para comer.
Swahili	Alisema hivyo kwa kuwa kulikuwa na watu wengi mno walikuwa wanafika hapo na kuondoka hata Yesu na wanafunzi wake hawakuweza kupata nafasi ya kula chakula. Basi, Yesu akawaambia, "Twendeni peke yetu mahali pa faragha kula chakula, mkapumzike kidogo."
Swedish	Då sade han till dem: "Kommen nu I med mig bort till en öde trakt, där vi få vara allena, och vilen eder något litet." Ty de fingo icke ens tid att äta; så många voro de som kommo och gingo.
Uma	Nto'u toe, wori' lia tauna to hilou-tumai, alaa-na ntahawe' ngkoni' neo' uma-pi ria loga-ra. Toe pai' na'uli' Yesus hi topetuku' -na: "Kita hilou hi kawaoa' -na mpalahii tauna to wori', bona ma'ala-ta mento'o hampai'."
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "leisure": leisured, leisureliness, leisurelinesses, leisurely, leisures, leisurewear. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Leisure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eizure, Gleasure, Keisure, leasure, leiser, leisere, leislure, leisoure, leissure, Leisurama, Leisureco, leisures, leizure, lensure, lesuire, lesure, liensure, lieserl, liesure, Lisburne, Liseuse, lisre, lisure, luuurve. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "leisure" (pronounced le"zher or lē"zher)
4	l e" zh er	displeasure, pleasure.
3	-e" zh er	measure, treasure.
3	-ē" zh er	seizure.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: relies, resile.
	-2 letters: ileus, leers, liers, lieus, lures, reels, reuse, riels, riles, rules, sieur, siree, slier.
	-3 letters: eels, else, ires, isle, leer, lees, leis, lier, lies, lieu, lire, lues, lure, reel, rees, reis, riel, rile, rise, rues, rule, ruse, seel, seer, sere, sire, slue, slur, suer, sure, user.
	-4 letters: eel, els, ere, ers, ire.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: bluesier, fusileer, leisured, leisures, reliques, superlie.
	+2 letters: beguilers, butleries, cruelties, cutleries, equaliser, fulleries, fusileers, leisurely, licensure, perilunes, prelusive, pulverise, purselike, reclusive, relumines, repulsive, reticules, revulsive, superlies, underlies, unsterile.
	+3 letters: adulteries, berkeliums, elutriates, emulsifier, equalisers, equalizers, esuriently, eulogizers, flummeries, hierodules, insecurely, interludes, irresolute, juggleries, kieselguhr, licensures, liquefiers, luciferase, mulberries, nebulizers, neutralise, pleurisies, plumberies, preclusive, pulverised, pulverises, pulverizes, rebellious, resupplied, resupplies, reutilizes, rubellites, saucerlike, sculleries, secularise, secularize, spherulite, squelchier, squirreled, summerlike, superelite, superhelix, superliner, surveilled, tellurides, tutelaries, underlines, unseemlier, ureotelism, virtueless, virulences.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 69 73 75 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.. . .. ... ..- .-. .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01101001 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#105 &#115 &#117 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0069 0073 0075 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Country	Name	Country	Name
Australia	Aristocrat Leisure Limited	Denmark	Land & Leisure A/S
Ireland	Power Leisure PLC	Malaysia	Leisure Management Berhad
South Africa	Admiral Leisure World Limited	United Kingdom	Allied Leisure Plc
USA	International Leisure Hosts, Ltd.
	(more examples...)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
leisure suit larry	698	learning leisure	54
leisure	693	supreme being of leisure	52
travel and leisure	672	leisure living	51
aqua leisure	289	download free larry leisure suit	48
travel and leisure magazine	270	leisure time entertainment	44
leisure arts	186	7 larry leisure suit through walk	44
leisure world	161	leisure time video	42
leisure suit larry download	153	center leisure southland	39
leisure time	144	leisure life	39
leisure pro	121	6 larry leisure suit	38
7 larry leisure suit	120	leisure resort at las vegas	38
aqua leisure pool	116	houston learning leisure	37
7 download larry leisure suit	86	larry leisure suit through walk	34
leisure bay spa	85	leisure suite larry	34
leisure suit	72	leisure resort time	32
estate leisure mimosa	68	bingo leisure	32
leisure resort	65	leisure pool time	32
leisure pool	62	aqua industry leisure	32
leisure bay	61	recreation and leisure	32
leisure time product	61	leisure plus	31
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Leisure

Definitions: Leisure

Leisure

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Leisure

Specialty Definition: Leisure

Synonyms: Leisure

Synonyms within Context: Leisure

Amusement

Inactivity

Lateness

Leisure

Crosswords: Leisure

Modern Usage: Leisure

Screenplays

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Leisure

References

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Leisure

Photos:Leisure

Computer Images:Leisure

Photo Album: Leisure

Familiar Quotations: Leisure

Aristotle

Benjamin Franklin

Henry David Thoreau

Herman Melville

Oscar Wilde

Ovid

Seneca

Thomas Hobbes

William Hazlitt

Historic Usage: Leisure

John Locke

United Nations

Use in Literature: Leisure

Emma

Austen, Jane

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Leisure

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Leisure

Dennis Miller

Speeches: Leisure

George Washington

Lyndon B. Johnson

Usage Frequency: Leisure

Name Usage Frequency: Leisure

Usage in Company Names: Leisure

Aristocrat Leisure Limited

Land & Leisure A/S

Power Leisure PLC

Leisure Management Berhad

Admiral Leisure World Limited

Allied Leisure Plc

International Leisure Hosts, Ltd.

Expressions: Leisure

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leisure

leisure suit larry

learning leisure

leisure

supreme being of leisure

travel and leisure

Photos:
Leisure

Computer Images:
Leisure