Disport

Definition: Disport

Disport

Verb

1. Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies".

2. Play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the palyroom".

Date "disport" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Disport

Synonyms: amuse (v), cavort (v), divert (v), frisk (v), frolic (v), gambol (v), lark (v), lark about (v), rollick (v), romp (v), run around (v), skylark (v), sport (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance; (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Disport

English words defined with "disport": Desport, Disported, Disporting. (references)

"Disport" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Disport" is used about 3 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
Lexical Verb (base form)	66.67%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Expression using "disport": disport oneself. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "disport"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zbavitem (amuse, disport oneself, entertain, frolic, lark, lark about), argëtohem (disport oneself, joy, rejoice, revel, tittup). (various references)

Arabic		‏لها (dally, have a good time, have fun, play about, toy, trifle, tumble). (various references)

Bulgarian		развличам се (pull). (various references)

Czech		bavit se (chat, talk). (various references)

German		sich ergötzen (be amused, be glad, make fun, take delight). (various references)

Greek		διασκεδάζω (amuse, beguile, enjoy, entertain, frolic, gallivant, have fun, I enjoy myself, jollify, junket, recreate, revel, skylark, sport). (various references)

Hungarian		szórakozik (have a ball, revel, to amuse oneself, to disport, to dissipate, to junket, to make merry, to sport). (various references)

Indonesian		bersenang-senang. (various references)

Italian		divertirsi (delight, enjoy oneself, play about, play around, revel, sport). (various references)

Pig Latin		isportday

Portuguese		depenar (deplume, drag out, pick, pluck, pull). (various references)

Russian		развлекаться (disport oneself, wile away the time). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zabavljati (amuse). (various references)

Spanish		entretenerse (amuse oneself, delay, loiter, Tarry, while away). (various references)

Swedish		roa sig (disport oneself, enjoy oneself), leka (dally, disport oneself, fiddle, lark, paddle, play, sport, toy, wanton). (various references)

Turkish		oyalanmak (amuse oneself, be amused, be pleased with, dally, delay, dilly dally, disport oneself, fool, fool about, fool around, footle, fribble, frivol, hang out, linger, loiter, mess around, monkey around, piddle, play around, Potter, potter about, potter at, procrastinate, stay, Tarry, trifle, trifle with, waste time), gülüşmek (disport oneself), eğlenmek (amuse oneself, be amused, disport oneself, fool, frolic, get a ball out of smth., go on a spree, have a good time, have fun, laugh away, make fun, make merry, make merry over, recreate oneself, revel, rollick, sport). (various references)

Ukrainian		розвага (beguilement, distraction, diversion, divertissement, do, entertainment, fun, pastime, play), розважатися (enjoy oneself, have fun). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Anglo-French	1100-1600	disporter. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "disport": disported, disporting, disportment, disportments, disports. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Disport" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Desipur, desmoret, Diaphot, discort, dispar, dispo, dispora, dispro, Disprol, dispur, dnipro, Eishort, Idsworth, Trisport. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: torpids, tripods.
	Words within the letters "d-i-o-p-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: droits, prosit, ripost, torpid, tripod, tripos.
	-2 letters: dipso, dirts, doits, dorps, drips, dript, droit, drops, dropt, odist, ports, posit, prods, prost, riots, rotis, spirt, sport, sprit, stirp, strip, strop, tiros, topis, torsi, trios, trips, trois.
	-3 letters: dips, dipt, dirt, dits, doit, dorp, dors, dost, dots, drip, drop, opts, orts, piso, pits, pods, pois.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-o-p-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: diopters, dioptres, disports, parodist, parotids, peridots, proteids, riposted, topsider.
	+2 letters: depictors, depositor, dipterous, disported, dripstone, droopiest, drypoints, parodists, parotoids, piedforts, prosodist, proteides, protoxids, redeposit, reposited, topsiders, triploids, tripodies.
	+3 letters: adsorption, adsorptive, coscripted, depositary, depositors, depository, descriptor, desorption, disporting, disruption, doctorship, dripstones, droplights, dystrophic, editorship, expeditors, interposed, parasitoid, parodistic, patronised, perditions, podiatries, podiatrist, predations, predictors, priesthood, prismatoid, proplastid, prosodists, pterygoids, redeposits, rhapsodist, spiderwort, temporised, terpenoids, trapezoids.
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