entertain

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.

   “to entertain friends with lively conversation”

2. fiil To have someone over at one's home, or some other venue, for a party or visit.

   “They enjoy entertaining a lot.”

3. fiil 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.”

4. fiil To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.

   “Intreat 'em fair, and give them friendly speech, And seem to them as if thy sins were great, Till thou hast gotten to be entertain'd.”

5. fiil To meet or encounter, as an enemy.

   “O noble English, that could entertain with half their forces the full pride of France”

6. fiil To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.

   “to baptize all nations, and to entertain them into the services and institutions of the holy Jesus”

7. fiil To help; to assist; to answer a phone call.
8. isim Entertainment; pleasure.

   “And Celſo, prethee let it be thy care to night / To haue ſome pretty ſhew, to ſolemnize / Our high inſtalement, ſome muſike maſkerie: / Weele giue faire entertaine vnto Maria […]”

9. isim Reception of a guest; welcome.

   “But neede, that answers not to all requests, / Bad them not looke for better entertayne […]”