entertain
entertain is a 9-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
- transitive verb. To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.
- transitive verb. To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.
- transitive verb. To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.
- transitive verb. To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
- transitive verb. To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.
- transitive verb. To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
- intransitive verb. To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.
- noun. Entertainment.
- verb. take into consideration, have in view
"He entertained the notion of moving to South America"
- verb. maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
"bear a grudge"
"entertain interesting notions"
- verb. provide entertainment for
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in entertain:
Common word forms
entertains, entertained, entertainer, entertaining, entertainable, entertainment
Words from these letters
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