v.
- provide with amusement or enjoyment.
▸show hospitality to.
- give attention or consideration to.
Derivative
- entertaining adj.
- entertainingly adv.
- entertainer n.
Etymology
ME (orig. in the sense ‘maintain, continue’, later ‘treat in a certain way’): from Fr. entretenir, based on L. inter ‘among’ + tenere ‘to hold’.