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Entertain   /ˌɛntərtˈeɪn/  /ˌɛnərtˈeɪn/   Listen
Entertain

verb
(past & past part. entertained; pres. part. entertaining)
1.
Provide entertainment for.
2.
Take into consideration, have in view.  Synonyms: flirt with, think about, think of, toy with.
3.
Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings).  Synonyms: harbor, harbour, hold, nurse.  "Entertain interesting notions" , "Harbor a resentment"



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"Entertain" Quotes from Famous Books



... to sing a pretty waltz song, for which Nancy played the accompaniment. Nancy had at first thought of playing a piano duet with Dorothy, but Dorothy pointed out that a number of the girls, when it came their turn to entertain, would surely play, and she urged Nancy to do a ...
— Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore • Amy Brooks
... were signing it, the notary raising the little glass window at the front, would entertain the assembly with some local legends, always decent, without any illusions to the sins of the flesh, but always those in which the digestive organs figured with every degree of license. The clients would roar with laughter, captivated ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... we must not consider what would amuse or entertain its, but solely the child's need, and this need will differ at the ...
— Your Child: Today and Tomorrow • Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg
... first Court Singer begs that she may entertain Your Highness with an idealistic song written by the celebrated ...
— Lucky Pehr • August Strindberg
... talents, than any one I have ever known. His head, hand, or heart, was always employed in something worthy imitation; his pencil, his bow (string) or his pen, each of which he used in a masterly manner, were always directed to raise, and entertain his own mind, or that of others, to a more chearful prosecution of what is noble and virtuous. Peace be with thy remains, thou amiable spirit! but I talk in the language of our weakness, that is flown to the regions of immortality, and relieved from the aking engine and painful instrument of anguish ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. IV • Theophilus Cibber


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