Dictionary Entry
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.
9 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
- 2transitive verb
To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive verb
To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
- 6transitive verb
To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.
- 7transitive verb
To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
- 8intransitive verb
To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.
- 9noun
Entertainment.
- 10verb
take into consideration, have in view
"He entertained the notion of moving to South America"
- 11verb
maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
"bear a grudge"
"entertain interesting notions"
- 12verb
provide entertainment for
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