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Entertain
ENTERTA'IN, v.t. [L. tenco.]
1. To receive into the house and treat with hospitality, either at the table only, or with lodging also.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Heb 13.
2. To treat with conversation; to amuse or instruct by discourse; properly, to engage the attention and retain the company of one, by agreeable conversation, discourse or argument. The advocate entertained his audience an hour, with sound argument and brilliant displays of eloquence.
3. To keep in one's service; to maintain. He entertained ten domestics.
You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.
[This original and French sense is obsolete or little used.]
4. To keep, hold or maintain in the mind with favor; to reserve in the mind; to harbor; to cherish. Let us entertain the most exalted views of the Divine character. It is our duty to entertain charitable sentiments towards our fellow men.
5. To maintain; to support; as, to entertain a hospital.
6. To please; to amuse; to divert. David entertained himself with the meditation of God's law. Idle men entertain themselves with trifles.
7. To treat; to supply with provisions and liquors, or with provisions and lodging, for reward. The innkeeper entertains a great deal of company.
ENTERTA'IN, n. Entertainment. [Not in use.]
entertain appears in definitions for these words:
Accourt Affect After-piece Agreeably Ambergris Ambigu Amuse Amused Amusement Amuser Amusing Amusive Anticipate Apprehend Ask Ball Banquet Banquet-house Banqueted Banqueter Banqueting Banqueting-house Barren Bear Board Burlesque Cheer Chop Circumforanean Coffee-house Company Conceited Convive Convivial Conviviality Coquette Credit Cup Delicious Deliciously Delightfully Derogatory Dessert Detestation Dining-room Dinner Divert Diverted Diverting Donative Dreamer Drink Dryly Dryness Embracery Encore Entertain Entertainer Entertaining Entertainment Entreaat Expect Fallacy Fancy Fare Feast Feasted Feaster Feasting Feastrite Feed Felicitate Fellowship Festival Festivity Foe Follow Forgetful Friend Gladiator Gladiatorial Great Guest Harbor Harborage Harbored Harborer Harboring Harl Hating High His Homely Honor Hospitable Hospitably Hospital Hospitality Host Hostess Hotel Indifferently Infestivity Inhospitable Inhospitality Inn Innholder Intellect Interlude Invite Irreverent Join Joy Juncate Junket Keep Lean Lenten Loving Magnificently Make Malign Marshal Mask Miserably Mode Mouthfriend Mummery Music Mutual Nobly Notion Of Original Overture Pageant Pantomime Parish Party Philanthropic Picknick Practice Prepare Princely Prolusion Public Quilting Quodlibetical Quodlibetically Receive Received Receiving Reception Regale Regaled Regalement Regaling Repasture Rich Ridicule Ridotto Romance Rustic Scornful Seem Serenade Spite Splendid Squeamish Stage Stage-play Style Superb Surmise Suspicious Table Take Tavern Tavern-keeper Tolerable Treat Treated Treater Treating Turn Unamused Unamusing Unbending Undiverted Unentertaining Unnoticed Victualer Wedding-feast Welcome Well-water
Accourt Affect After-piece Agreeably Ambergris Ambigu Amuse Amused Amusement Amuser Amusing Amusive Anticipate Apprehend Ask Ball Banquet Banquet-house Banqueted Banqueter Banqueting Banqueting-house Barren Bear Board Burlesque Cheer Chop Circumforanean Coffee-house Company Conceited Convive Convivial Conviviality Coquette Credit Cup Delicious Deliciously Delightfully Derogatory Dessert Detestation Dining-room Dinner Divert Diverted Diverting Donative Dreamer Drink Dryly Dryness Embracery Encore Entertain Entertainer Entertaining Entertainment Entreaat Expect Fallacy Fancy Fare Feast Feasted Feaster Feasting Feastrite Feed Felicitate Fellowship Festival Festivity Foe Follow Forgetful Friend Gladiator Gladiatorial Great Guest Harbor Harborage Harbored Harborer Harboring Harl Hating High His Homely Honor Hospitable Hospitably Hospital Hospitality Host Hostess Hotel Indifferently Infestivity Inhospitable Inhospitality Inn Innholder Intellect Interlude Invite Irreverent Join Joy Juncate Junket Keep Lean Lenten Loving Magnificently Make Malign Marshal Mask Miserably Mode Mouthfriend Mummery Music Mutual Nobly Notion Of Original Overture Pageant Pantomime Parish Party Philanthropic Picknick Practice Prepare Princely Prolusion Public Quilting Quodlibetical Quodlibetically Receive Received Receiving Reception Regale Regaled Regalement Regaling Repasture Rich Ridicule Ridotto Romance Rustic Scornful Seem Serenade Spite Splendid Squeamish Stage Stage-play Style Superb Surmise Suspicious Table Take Tavern Tavern-keeper Tolerable Treat Treated Treater Treating Turn Unamused Unamusing Unbending Undiverted Unentertaining Unnoticed Victualer Wedding-feast Welcome Well-water
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