noun, adjective
noun [U]
1 enjoyment; pleasure; a thing that gives enjoyment or pleasure and makes you feel happy:
We had a lot of fun at Sarah's party. * Sailing is good fun. * Have fun (= Enjoy yourself)! * I decided to learn Spanish, just for fun. * I didn't do all that work just for the fun of it. * It's not much fun going to a party on your own. * 'What fun!' she said with a laugh. * Walking three miles in the pouring rain is not my idea of fun. * The whole family can join in the fun at Water World. * 'What do you say to a weekend in New York?' 'Sounds like fun.'
2 behaviour or activities that are not serious but come from a sense of enjoyment:
She's very lively and full of fun. * We didn't mean to hurt him. It was just a bit of fun. * It wasn't serious - it was all done in fun.
IDIOMS
fun and games (informal) activities that are not serious and that other people may disapprove of
make fun of sb/sth to laugh at sb/sth or make other people laugh at them, usually in an unkind way:
It's cruel to make fun of people who stammer.
moreatFIGUREn., POKEv.
adjective amusing or enjoyable:
She's really fun to be with. * This game looks fun! * There are lots of fun things for young people to do here.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fun is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does fun appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — fun appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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