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US
/ˌɛnɝˈteɪn, ˌɛntɝˈteɪn/
]
[ UK /ˌɛntətˈeɪn/ ]
[ UK /ˌɛntətˈeɪn/ ]
VERB
- provide entertainment for
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take into consideration, have in view
He entertained the notion of moving to South America -
maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
entertain interesting notions
harbor a resentment
bear a grudge
How To Use entertain In A Sentence
- Moreover, she is being asked to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals, tariffs and employment figures. Times, Sunday Times
- Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining. The Sun
- She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
- For local entertainment you would have to hire the raucously energetic rock group that rehearses in the village hall.
- To academic historians they were ‘mere entertainment’ - just mindless pap for gormless morons.
- The ufological entertainers, mentioned above, have incorporated it as part of their acts.
- You may also have added expense for client lunches and entertainment. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
- She provides love, companionship and entertainment, and brings so much happiness to my life.
- Their lasagna is like eating a cloud .... the little museum next to the church has some interesting objects, and the best entertainment of all is a nice long stroll around town. tashby Current Info on San Sebastian del Oeste
- The telescreen was emphatically not for entertainment.