Definition of Leisure

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Leisure

Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.

Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.

Unemployed; as, leisure hours.

Related Definitions:

As, At, Business, Command, Convenience, Convenient, Ease, Employment, Engagement, Free, Freedom, From, Hence, Hours, Leisure, Occupation, One, Opportunity, Or, Time, Unemployed, Vacant

Leisure Quotations

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Leisure Translations

leisure in French is loisir
leisure in Italian is ozio
leisure in Latin is otium
leisure in Norwegian is fritid
leisure in Spanish is ocio, vaguedad
leisure in Swedish is fritid

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