LEISURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leisure mean? 

• LEISURE (noun)
  The noun LEISURE has 2 senses:

1. time available for ease and relaxation

2. freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity

  Familiarity information: LEISURE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEISURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Time available for ease and relaxation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

leisure; leisure time

Context example:

his job left him little leisure

Hypernyms ("leisure" is a kind of...):

time off (a time period when you are not required to work)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leisure"):

free time; spare time (time that is free from duties or responsibilities)

holiday; vacation (leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure)

playday; playtime (time for play or diversion)

Derivation:

leisurely (not hurried or forced)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he lacked the leisure for golf

Hypernyms ("leisure" is a kind of...):

ease; relaxation; repose; rest (freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leisure"):

vacationing (the act of taking a vacation)

 Context examples 

She hardly wished to have more leisure for them.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Micawber took the opportunity of Traddles putting on his great-coat, to slip a letter into my hand, with a whispered request that I would read it at my leisure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I shall give directions that you may remain behind when the others go, so that you may copy it at your leisure without fear of being overlooked.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fanny's heart sunk, but there was no leisure for thinking long even of Miss Crawford's feelings.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I laid down, whilst I waited his leisure to attend to me, for I felt faint and a little sick.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In that case you will, of course, go on your way, and I will follow at my leisure.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When she is secure of him, there will be more leisure for falling in love as much as she chooses.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There was little leisure for speaking while they danced; but when they were seated at tea, she found him as agreeable as she had already given him credit for being.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The teaching would render her independent, and such leisure as she got might be made profitable by writing, while the new scenes and society would be both useful and agreeable.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

However, we will go back at our leisure and verify it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)