0 to keep a group of people interested or enjoying themselves:
Most children's television programmes aim to educate and entertain at the same time.
1 to invite someone to your home and give food and drink to them:
We entertain a lot of people, mainly business associates of my wife's.
Now that I live on my own, I don't entertain much.
2 to hold something in your mind or to be willing to consider or accept something:
The General refused to entertain the possibility of defeat.
3 to keep a person or a group of people interested or amused:
4 to invite one or more people to your house and give food and drink to them:
5 to hold in your mind or to be willing to consider or accept:
He entertained some doubts about how truthful the government was.
6 to take customers or possible customers out to restaurants, bars, theatres, etc. as a way of encouraging them to do business with you:
Milligan's anarchic humour has always had the power to offend as well as entertain.
Year after year they wheel out the same third-rate celebrities to entertain us.
Should the function of children's television be to entertain or to enlighten?
The crowd was entertained with a display of aerobatics.
The crowds were once again entertained by the number one tennis player's antics on and off the court.
They also entertained those naval captains who successfully escorted convoys, rewarding them with presents and personally congratulating them in published resolutions in the newspapers.
The positive experience suggests that interactive graphics programs of this kind make good and entertaining programming exercises for functional programming courses.
Respondents striving for multilocal adaptation entertained relatively advanced ideals of mobility.
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使開心, 使有興趣, 使快樂…
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entretener, tener invitados, recibir…
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entreter, divertir, receber…
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~を楽しませる, (人)をもてなす…
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eğlen(dir)mek, davet etmek, misafir ağırlamak…
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divertir, distraire, recevoir…
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