Definition of entertain

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Entertain (v. t.) To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.

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Entreaty :: Entreaty (n.) Treatment; reception; entertainment.
Entertainer :: Entertainer (n.) One who entertains.
Entertain :: Entertain (v. i.) To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously..
Stageplayer :: Stageplay (n.) A dramatic or theatrical entertainment.
Guest :: Guest (n.) A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
Society :: Society (n.) Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments..
Divertise :: Divertise (v. t.) To divert; to entertain.
Divertissement :: Divertissement (n.) A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play..
Diverting :: Diverting (a.) Amusing; entertaining.
Junket :: Junket (v. t.) To give entertainment to; to feast.
Board :: Board (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board..
Divert :: Divert (v. t.) To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor..
Serenade :: Serenade (n.) Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies..
Host :: Host (v. t.) To give entertainment to.
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders..
Convivial :: Convivial (a.) Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial..
Feaster :: Feaster (n.) One who entertains magnificently.
Entertain :: Entertain (v. t.) To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest..
Drinking :: Drinking (n.) An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
Ask :: Ask (v. t.) To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment..
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