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say it: pleez
please is a verb and adverb meaning "give pleasure to or be pleasing to". It is pronounced /ˈpliz/ — pleez. It carries 4 recorded senses.
be the will of or have the will (to)
“he could do many things if he pleased”
used in polite request
“please pay attention”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for please come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.