Definition of Entertain

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Entertain

To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.

To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.

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.

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.

To meet or encounter, as an enemy.

To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.

To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.

To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.

Entertainment.

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Entertain Quotations

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Walt Disney

I always entertain great hopes.
Robert Frost

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Ambrose Bierce

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
Elvis Presley

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Abigail Adams

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell

Entertain Translations

entertain in French is divertissez, divertis, divertissent, divertissons
entertain in German is unterhalten
entertain in Italian is mantenere, distrarre
entertain in Norwegian is beverte, more, underholde
entertain in Spanish is conversar, entretener, dispersar

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