leisure

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity

   They lacked the leisure for golf.

2. 2
   noun

   time available for ease and relaxation

   The farmer's job left them with little leisure during the harvest season.

3. 3
   noun

   Free time, time free from work or duties.

   The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.

4. 4
   noun

   Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.

   He sigh'd, and had no leisure more to say.

5. 5
   noun

   Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.

6. 6
   name

   A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English leyser, from Anglo-Norman leisir, variant of Old French loisir (“to enjoy oneself”) (Modern French loisir survives as a noun), substantive use of a verb, from Latin licēre (“be permitted”). Displaced native Old English ǣmetta.