0 past simple and past participle of entertain --
1 to keep a group of people interested or enjoying themselves: --
Most children's television programmes aim to educate and entertain at the same time.
2 to invite someone to your home and give food and drink to them: --
Now that I live on my own, I don't entertain much.
We entertain a lot of people, mainly business associates of my wife's.
3 to hold something in your mind or to be willing to consider or accept something: --
The General refused to entertain the possibility of defeat.
However, there are a few occasions where a different view of phonological features is entertained.
Such mechanisms have not been sufficiently entertained in prior work and, as a result, cause and putative consequence have been all too often confounded.
Such ideas have been entertained by various authors, using diverse specifications of game and associated concepts of equilibrium.
Before considering a possible explanation for the present findings, we briefly survey explanatory schemes that are entertained for inhibition or facilitation of return.
The possibility of lower levels of nortriptyline equalling less adverse side-effects, without significantly reducing efficacy, was entertained.
Even there, as our fundamentalist campaign poster indicated, diverse and sometimes contradictory values are not only entertained but also trumpeted before the general public.
Clastres entertained many hypotheses through his life about what factors might have given rise to the state.
That is, he traces the historical development of the persecution, and of the bizarre fantasies which the minds of the persecutors entertained about their victims.
