Leisure

Noun

 * 1) Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
 * 2) Time free from work or duties.
 * 3) * 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 11
 * Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
 * 1) * 1908, William David Ross (translator), Aristotle, Metaphysics
 * This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure.

Related terms

 * leisurely

Adjectives for Leisure
scant; elegant; extreme; endowed; practicable; sour; patient; graceful; multitudinous; everlasting; abundant; fallow; infinite; precious; tranquil;  unbroken;  spiritual; ample; dignified; literary; sufficient; unholy; superfluous; holiday; dilettante; calm; machine-created; wasted.

Verbs for Leisure
bankrupt of—; beautify—; burden with—; court—; devote—to; discipline—; dispense with—; employ—; enjoy—; fill—; indulge at —; occupy—; pursue at—; rejoice in—; retire into—; revel in—; reward with—; steal —; wallow in—; weary of—; —civilizes; delights; —enriches; —entombs; —polish.

Thesaurus
at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, disengaged, ease, fallow, free, free time, freedom, holiday, idle, inactive, jobless, leisured, liberty, lumpen, off, off duty, off work, open, opportunity, otiose, out of employ, out of harness, out of work, quiet, recreation, recreational, relaxation, relief, repose, respite, rest, resting, retired, semiretired, spare, spare time, time off, tranquillity, unemployable, unemployed, unencumbered, unhurriedly, unoccupied, vacation

Etymology
leisir: from leisir:, variant of  loisir: (Modern French loisir: survives as a noun), substantive use of a verb, from  licere:. Displaced native lethe: (from  liþian: "to unloose, release", compare  liþung: "permission"),  tom#: "leisure" (from  tom: "leisure, ease", compare  tom: "free from").

Translations

 * Arabic: خلو من العمل
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 空閑,
 * Dutch: vrije tijd
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, 余暇, レジャー
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese: ócio
 * Russian:
 * Scots: leisur
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ledighet


 * Arabic: راحة, خلو من العمل,  فراغ,  وقت الفراغ
 * Belarusian: свабодны час
 * Bulgarian: свободно време
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 空閑,,  閑空,  闲空,  閑暇,  ,  餘暇,  余暇,  餘閑,  余闲
 * Croatian: slobodno vrijeme
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: vrije tijd
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ,  tempo libero
 * Japanese: 余暇, 閑暇,  閑散,
 * Korean:
 * Polish: wolny czas
 * Portuguese: ócio
 * Russian:, свободное время
 * Scots: leisur
 * Serbian: слободно време
 * Spanish:, tiempo libre
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: вільний час