Word.ws English Dictionary

plaisaunce

plaisaunce is the alternative form of pleasance.

Meaning of pleasance

Noun

pleasance (countable and uncountable, plural pleasances)

  1. A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden.
    • the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses1859, John Ruskin, The Two Paths
    Synonyms:
    pleasure garden
  2. (obsolete) Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy.
  3. (obsolete) The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight.
    • Now ſtands the Brere like a Loꝛd alone, / Puffed vp with pꝛyde and vaine pleaſaunce: […]1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 6, verso

See all 5 meanings of pleasance

Forms of plaisaunce

pluralplaisaunces

Questions about plaisaunce

What is plaisaunce the alternative form of?
Plaisaunce is the alternative form of pleasance.

Words near plaisaunce in the dictionary

  1. Plairs
  2. plaisance
  3. plaisances
  4. plaisanteur
  5. plaisanteurs
  6. plaisaunce
  7. plaisaunces
  8. plaise
  9. plaises
  10. Plaisir
  11. Plaisted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: plaisaunce (page history and authors); pleasance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “plaisaunce.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plaisaunce. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.