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entertain English

Meaning entertain meaning

What does entertain mean?
Definitions in simple English

entertain Verb

— You entertain a person by keeping that person interested in what you are doing. The comedian is able to entertain the audience for hours by telling jokes. — When you entertain an idea, you think about it. I hope he will entertain the idea of inviting us over.

entertain

— verb provide entertainment for — verb take into consideration, have in view He entertained the notion of moving to South America — verb (= harbor, harbour) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) bear a grudge entertain interesting notions harbor a resentment

Synonyms entertain synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as entertain?

entertain English » English

amuse treat receive divert harbour welcome nurse interest host hold feast delight regale please cherish serve satisfy harbor greet gratify conduct oneself behave toy with think of think about think tend recreate reception play with pander nurture make welcome make laugh maintain look after junket joke gladden flirt with distract console consider comfort cheer up beguile bear act accommodate accept

Topics entertain topics

What do people use entertain to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion

Feel good
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Like, love

Enjoy doing something

  • What words refer to causing someone to enjoy himself?
    amuse entertain
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Interested
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group Visit

Show hospitality

Conjugation entertain conjugation

How do you conjugate entertain?

entertain · verb

Examples entertain examples

How do I use entertain in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I need to entertain myself with something.
Now let me entertain you with music.
If the students are bored, they will find ways to entertain themselves.
George Sand cannot determine whether she is male or female. I entertain a high regard for all my colleagues, but it is not my place to decide whether she is my sister or my brother.
A woman needs to be loved so much that she won't even entertain the possibility of someone else loving her more.
Will you entertain the guests while I get dressed?
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it as fact.
Tom was trying to entertain Marie.

Movie subtitles

To attract the court? We have more to do than to entertain the duchess.
We entertain a celebrity, Miss Trowbridge.
Oh, Dolly, I leave you now to entertain our brilliant bird of passage.
It sounds funny, but I don't seem to be able to entertain you.
Ned, if you and your sisters will do the telephoning you spoke about I shall try and entertain Mr. Case.
This young lady and myself have been practicing a few feats of acrobatic skill with which we shall be glad to entertain you.
I'm afraid I won't know how to entertain you.
Entertain any more people in your room tonight.
I'll entertain our guest.
If she would entertain Antro.
Where do you entertain?
Who do you want to entertain?
So you don't have to entertain me.
About it being easier not to entertain certain thoughts.
Entertain the gentleman.
It must be my privilege to entertain you.
Now. When the Baron arrives. entertain him the same way you did Bernard Shaw and Professor Einstein.
One of the best marksmen it has ever been my good fortune to entertain, Sir Humphrey.
Alf, entertain the ladies while I'm gone.
I'm gonna entertain visitors.
This is no place to entertain.
We'll need you to help entertain Little Chief.
We might manage to entertain her before she thrashed me.
Not the kind of a person I'd expect you to entertain.
We have to entertain the people he does business with, and I guess that's what it is tonight.
You like to entertain them!
Take this business today, it never would have happened if Rhoda had been able to entertain her friends at home as she used to.
We could get them easily. they jump at a chance like this Is this the nice way to entertain your sweetheart?
Why don't you go home? I'll entertain our guest.
What men must do to entertain women!
All you'd have to do would be to entertain a little. For instance, invite certain people.
I tried to entertain the Captain, but he seems to be the suspicious type.

News and current affairs

In that case, the generalized silence could indicate that all other central banks entertain the possibility of using that option, which would be most worrisome.
PARIS - All over the world, Internet users entertain romantic delusions about cyberspace.
When the economy falters, however, creditors - and those who are willing to entertain the prospect of default - can impose their will on everyone else.
Russia's public is outraged, not because the loss of TV-6 appears as a triumph of politics as usual, but because it leaves one less broadcaster to entertain.
And Arabs, having redeemed themselves on the battlefield, may be more willing to entertain a compromise.
The explosions over Gaza that night were not intended to entertain, but rather to break Hamas and discredit it in the eyes of Palestinians.
One premise underlies this entire line of thought: to imagine that there is a democratic alternative to Saddam, or that once he disappears there will be a democratic transition in Iraq, is to entertain dangerous illusions.
Of course, one should not entertain too many illusions.
Standard international-relations thinking does not even entertain the question, and those conventional ways of seeing the world have blinded us to looking at this crucial question.
Does the future belong, then, to the clowns, the anarchic blogosphere, the anti-politicians, and the populist showmen who entertain the masses with jokes, slurs, and indiscretions on TV channels, which some of them actually own?

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