entertain
Meaning of entertain
noun
- Entertainment; pleasure.
- Reception of a guest; welcome.
- To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.
- To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
They enjoy entertaining a lot.
- To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.
- To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
- To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
- To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
Information about entertain
- The plural form of entertain is: entertains.
- Languages in which entertain is used:
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Hyphenation of entertain
en-ter-tain
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- entertain is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
entertain synonyms
Meaning harbor:
Translation of entertain
- Spanish: recibir, acoger, divertir, entretener, abrigar, albergar
- French: accueillir, amuser, nourrir, ressentir
- German: empfangen, unterhalten, hegen
- Italian: ricevere, ospitare, nutrire, covare, albergare
- Portuguese: nutrir
Anagrams of entertain
enteritan, Tarentine, Terentian, terentian, ternatine
Words that rhyme with entertain
tain, Patain, copatain, obtain, preobtain, reobtain, betain, detain, predetain, retain, chieftain, Britain, Maritain, britain, huitain, Mountain, catamountain, contain, fountain, intermountain, maintain, mountain, plantain, precontain, premaintain, quintain, remaintain, submountain, transmountain, undermountain, upmountain, Potain, chevrotain, infotain, Captain, Ptain, captain, cocaptain, subcaptain, undercaptain, McCurtain, appertain, ascertain, certain, curtain, discurtain, encurtain, incertain, incurtain, noncertain
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