1 to invite people to eat or drink with you as your guests, especially in your home:
[V] The job involves a lot of entertaining. * [VN] Barbecues are a favourite way of entertaining friends.
2 ~ (sb) (with sth) to interest and amuse sb in order to please them:
[VN] He entertained us for hours with his stories and jokes. * [V] The aim of the series is both to entertain and inform.
3 [VN] (not used in the progressive tenses) (formal) to consider or allow yourself to think about an idea, a hope, a feeling, etc:
He had entertained hopes of a reconciliation. * to entertain a doubt / suspicion
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In this entry, entertain is tagged as verb.
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