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Enchant vs Entertain - What's the difference?

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Enchant is a related term of entertain.


As verbs the difference between enchant and entertain

is that enchant is to attract and delight, to charm while entertain is to amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.

As a noun entertain is

(obsolete) ; pleasure.

enchant

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Alternative forms

* enchaunt (obsolete) * inchant (obsolete) * inchaunt (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To attract and delight, to charm.
  • * 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
    • New Jersey was reeling on Wednesday from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which has caused catastrophic flooding here in Hoboken and in other New York City suburbs, destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers.
  • To cast a spell over.
  • * 2009 , Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary , Paizo Publishing, ISBN 978-1-60125-183-1, page 241
    • With the aid of his eponymous pipes, a satyr is capable of weaving a wide variety of melodic spells designed to enchant others and bring them in line with his capricious desires.

    Derived terms

    * enchanted * enchanter * enchanting * enchantment * enchantress

    entertain

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
    • to entertain friends with lively conversation
    The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.
  • (transitive, and, intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
    • They enjoy entertaining a lot.
  • * Bible, Heb. xiii. 2
    • Be not forgetful to entertain strangers
  • To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
    • The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.
    to entertain a proposal
  • * De Quincey
    • I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.
  • * Hawthorne
    • A rumour gained ground, — and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.
  • (obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.
  • (obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • to baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services and institutions of the holy Jesus

    Derived terms

    * entertainer * entertaining * entertainment

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) ; pleasure.
  • (obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
    • But neede, that answers not to all requests, / Bad them not looke for better entertayne […].

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