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Entertain vs Calypso - What's the difference?

entertain | calypso |

As nouns the difference between entertain and calypso

is that entertain is (obsolete) ; pleasure while calypso is a type of music and dance that originated in the west indies (perhaps trinidad), a ballad is characterized by improvised lyrics on topical or broadly humorous subjects, often creating satire of current events or calypso can be a bulbous bog orchid of the genus.

As a verb entertain

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

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

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  • (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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    calypso

    English

    (Calypso music)

    Etymology 1

    Originally Trinidad English, an alteration of (kaiso), perhaps ultimately of African origin; Allsopp 1996 suggests (etyl) , used to urge dancers on. The spelling reflects a later folk-etymological assimilation with the mythological name (Calypso).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A type of music and dance that originated in the West Indies (perhaps Trinidad), a ballad is characterized by improvised lyrics on topical or broadly humorous subjects, often creating satire of current events.
    • Derived terms
    * calypsonian

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), itself from (etyl) (wikipedia calypso) (wikispecies)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A bulbous bog orchid of the genus
  • A light blue color.

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