Intertain vs Entertain - What's the difference?

intertain | entertain |

Intertain is likely misspelled.

Intertain has no English definition.

As a verb entertain is

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

As a noun entertain is

entertainment; pleasure.

intertain

Not English

Intertain has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'intertain':

interwoven, intrusion, interjoin, induration, interferon, interurban, interorgan, interchain, intrachain, interbasin, intraurban, intergrown, intergrain, intragrain, intervein, interhuman, intraexon, introscan, indriven, interunion, intraunion, intergern, indiretin, indirubin, interreign, intorsion, interbrain, intermean, intortion, intermedin, intrahuman

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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