pleasant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior

   I didn't enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around

2. 2
   adj

   Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

   We had a pleasant walk around the town.

3. 3
   adj

   Facetious, joking.

   [T]ell the pleasant prince this mock of his / Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones […]

4. 4
   noun

   A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

   […] Galba was no better than one of the buffons or pleasants that professe to make folke merry and to laugh.

5. 5
   adj

   affording pleasure

6. 6
   name

   A surname.

7. 7
   name

   A township and unincorporated community therein, in Switzerland County, Indiana, United States.

8. 8
   name

   A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Pleasant Township.

Etymology

From Middle English plesaunte, from Old French plaisant. By surface analysis, please + -ant. Related to Dutch plezant (“full of fun or pleasure”). Partly displaced Old English wynsum, which became Modern English winsome.