amenity

WOTD – 3 July 2011    

English

Alternative forms

• amœnity (archaic)

Etymology

From French aménité, from Latin amoenitās (“pleasantness, delightfulness”), from amoenus (“pleasant, delightful”), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /əˈmiːnəti/, /əˈmenəti/

Noun

amenity (plural amenities)

1. Pleasantness.

   We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.

2. A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant.

   All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable.

3. Convenience.
4. (cartography) a unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library etc.

Synonyms

• (piece of infrastructure): facility

Translations

pleasantness

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: amenitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 適宜 (cmn), 适宜 (cmn) (shìyí), 舒適 (cmn), 舒适 (cmn) (shūshì)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: geriefelijkheid (nl), aangenaamheid (nl)
• Finnish: miellyttävyys (fi)
• French: aménité (fr) f, agrément (fr) m
• Georgian: სიამოვნება (ka) (siamovneba)
• German: Annehmlichkeit (de) f, Anmut (de) f

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: amenità (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: amenidade (pt) f
• Russian: приятность (ru) f (prijatnostʹ), мягкость (ru) f (mjagkostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: udobnost (sh)
• Spanish: comodidad (es) f, amenidad (es) f
• Turkish: hoşluk (tr), tatlılık (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

something that makes life easier or more pleasant

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: comoditat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (explanatory) 令人舒適之物, 令人舒适之物 (lìng rén shūshì zhī wù), 令人舒適的設備, 令人舒适的设备 (lìng rén shūshì de shèbèi)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: voorziening (nl)
• Finnish: mukavuus (fi)
• French: commodité (fr) f
• Georgian: კომფორტი (ka) (komp’orti)
• German: Annehmlichkeit (de) f, Annehmlichkeit (de) f

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: regalo (pt) m, comodidade (pt) f
• Russian: удобство (ru) n (udobstvo), (somewhat) комфортабельность (ru) f (komfortabelʹnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: goireas (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: pogodnost (sh), udobnost (sh), komoditet (sh)
• Spanish: comodidad (es) f, amenidad (es) f
• Turkish: tesis (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

convenience

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 便利 (cmn) (biànlì)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: mukavuus (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: please add this translation if you can

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: conveniência (pt) f
• Russian: удобство (ru) (udóbstvo) n 
• Serbo-Croatian: pogodnost (sh)
• Spanish: servicio (es) m
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

unit of community infrastructure

• German: Einrichtung (de) f, öffentliche Einrichtung (de) f, Anlage (de) f

• Spanish: servicio (es) m, servicio público (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: любезност, вежливост
• Finnish: mukavuus, miellyttävyys
• Indonesian: kenyamanan
• Swedish: behaglighet, bekvämlighet
• Turkish: memnuniyet, rahatlik

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