entertain

IPA: ɛntɝtˈeɪn

(transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
(transitive and intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
(transitive) To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
(obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
(obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
(obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.

Examples of "entertain" in Sentences

By and large, the only “something” that other countries might entertain is the capacity to shovel the S#!
Anyone who has to use profanity to make their point or to entertain is only revealing his or her own limitations. — ravenswing2
Unlike with many street performers, I do not have to place quotes around the word entertain, because they're actually pretty funny.
But when he plays them, he should do so with the bogey-and-wave crowd, with the aging champs here to entertain from the deep end of the traps.
They can't be content just to be caretakers, especially not when a waning sport needs competitors whose desire to entertain is eclipsed only by their desire to win.
It's a narrative art that strives not to change or enlighten or broaden or reorient--not necessarily even to "entertain"--but merely and always to engage, to appeal to.
Now, Wired News reports that the BBC, which operates under a royal charter to inform, educate, and entertain, is launching “iCan,” a service to support citizen activism.
It's a narrative art that strives not to change or enlighten or broaden or reorient -- not necessarily even to "entertain" -- but merely and always to engage, to appeal to.
If there was ever of picture of a total stalemate, that it is, but the one thing the MSM does not want to entertain is any suggestion that the Qana incident was staged by Hezbollah.