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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
- (transitive and intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
- (transitive) To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
- (obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
- (obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
- (obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
Substantiv
- (obsolete) Entertainment; pleasure.
- (obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.
Exempel
- to entertain friends with lively conversation
- The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.
- They enjoy entertaining a lot.
- Be not forgetful to entertain strangers[...]
- The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.
- to entertain a proposal
- I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.
- A rumour gained ground, — and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.
- You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.
- to baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services and institutions of the holy Jesus
- But neede, that answers not to all requests, / Bad them not looke for better entertayne […].
- She entertained the notion that he could be right, but later dismissed it.
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