Word Finder - entertains

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

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The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.

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To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.

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They enjoy entertaining a lot.

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To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.

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The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.

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

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To meet or encounter, as an enemy.

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To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.

Stralsund entertains passengerboat communications with Barth, Stettin, Rostock and Lubeck as well as with various small ports on the isle of Riigen.

Even in the christology, where he is treating of the historical Christ, he entertains critical considerations; hence it is not altogether without reason that in after times he was suspected of "Ebionitic" views of the Person of Christ.

The poet wears an air of exalted superiority over the religious innovators of his day, and entertains a buoyant confidence that the future of the ancient gods of Rome will not belie their glorious past.

Ultimately tho, while it entertains, the story is slightly too long to justify the blackly comedic but weak ending.

Artaud's criterion of spectacle is sensory violence, not sensory enchantment; beauty is a notion he never entertains.

Entropy restaurant serves top-notch, exciting, modern cuisine which entertains the eyes and tastebuds rather than simply fills the belly.

With his hospitable intellect he embraces children, beggars, insane, and scholars, and entertains the thought of all, adding to it commonly some breadth and elegance.

Artaud 's criterion of spectacle is sensory violence, not sensory enchantment; beauty is a notion he never entertains.

Surprize Ink Game Book entertains as the child colors the games and pictures, and secret images magically appear as the enclosed marker moves across the page.

Hosted for the last several years by television personalities Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, this parade entertains viewers at home who cannot be at the Disney World Resorts.

If you're a Monkey, you probably also enjoy a keen sense of wit that entertains your companions.

Blair entertains a call from the Yale dean, and finds out Emma put in a good word for her.

Today the lively restaurant serves food, drinks and entertains with karaoke, but it is also reportedly haunted.

For these reasons, every Hindu household - whether Brahman, Kshatriya or Sudra - that can afford to keep a paid cook generally entertains the services of a Brahman for the performance of its cuisine - the result being that in the larger towns the very name of Brahman has suffered a strange degradation of late, so as to mean only a cook "(Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya, Hindu Castes and Sects).