Definitions for please

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please please

Spelling: [pleez]

IPA: /pliz/

Please is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in please (aeelps).

Definitions for please

Idioms

1. if you please, if it be your pleasure; if you like or prefer. (used as an exclamation expressing astonishment, indignation, etc.):

adverb

1. (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly:

verb (used with object)

1. to act to the pleasure or satisfaction of:
2. to be the pleasure or will of:

verb (used without object)

1. to like, wish, or feel inclined:
2. to give pleasure or satisfaction; be agreeable:

Origin of please

1275-1325; (v.) Middle English plesen, plaisen Middle French plaisir ≪ Latin placēre to please, seem good (see placid); the use of please with requests, etc., is pr

Examples for please

Tell Aunt Cornelia, please, that I shall be along in just a moment.

"Call me Mr. Davis, if you please," said Halbert, haughtily.

It is ever thus, when we disobey the gods, to please mortals.

“please, please do not permit this to happen here in Florida,” wrote Cris K. Smith of East Polk County.

please, Your Excellencies, consider my case with justice and intervene on my behalf.

please know she has a very special place in our collective hearts.

I would nod, and we'd tell the St. Regis 'One more night, please.'

If it please you, lady, my master bids me say he desires your presence.

He returned at length with the message, "The lady says will you please step up-stairs."

“please,” he laughed, handing me the map after he was finished sketching.