Please Definition

plēz

pleased, pleases, pleasing

verb

pleased, pleases, pleasing

To be agreeable; give pleasure; satisfy.

To aim to please.

Webster's New World

To be agreeable to; give pleasure to; satisfy.

Webster's New World

To have the will or wish; like [to do as one pleases]

You are pleased to scoff.

Webster's New World

To be the will or desire of.

May it please the court to admit this firearm as evidence.

American Heritage

To be the will or wish of.

It pleased him to remain.

Webster's New World

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adverb

Used for politeness in requests or commands to mean “be obliging enough (to)”

Please sit down.

Webster's New World

Yes. Used in polite affirmative replies to offers.

May I help you? Please.

American Heritage

An expression of annoyance or impatience.

Oh, please, do we have to hear that again?

Wiktionary

idiom

if you please

Webster's New World

please God

Webster's New World

please oneself

Webster's New World

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Please

Middle English plesen, plaisen, from Old French plaise, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placÄ“re (“to please, to seem good"), from the Proto-Indo-European *plā-k- (“wide and flat"). Displaced native Middle English quemen, queamen (“to please") (from Old English cwÄ“man (“to please")), Middle English biluvien (“to please, delight") (from Middle English bi-, be- + luvien (“to love")), Middle English liken (“to like, please") (from Old English lÄ«cian (“to please, be like")), Middle English lusten, listen (“to be pleasing, delight") (from Old English lystan (“to please")).

From Wiktionary
Short for if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you, which replaced pray.

From Wiktionary
Middle English plesen from Old French plaisir pleasant

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition