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Entertain vs Pleasuredome - What's the difference?

entertain | pleasuredome |

As nouns the difference between entertain and pleasuredome

is that entertain is (obsolete) ; pleasure while pleasuredome is a place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.

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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    pleasuredome

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    Alternative forms

    * pleasure dome

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.
  • * 1999 , Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture , Routledge (1999), ISBN 9780415923736, page 47:
    • Then again, sampladelia may equally be a component of a Krokerite dystopia of "cold seduction": "a cool hallucinatory culture of special effects personalities moving at warp speed to nowhere," a virtual-reality pleasuredome where the self is a will-o'-the-wisp buffeted by "ceaseless movement in the eddies of cultural matter."
  • * 2009 , Adrian Grant, Michael Jackson: The Visual Documentary , Omnibuss Press (2009), ISBN 9780857122124, unnumbered page:
    • When Michael agreed to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in 1993, more than a hundred million people around the world became privy to the fantasy of Neverland, his California pleasuredome .
  • * 2012 , Bruce Clark, Paradise for Beginners , Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co. (2012), ISBN 9781612048826, page 174:
    • The noise level thudded beyond deemed acceptability for a construction site, let alone a pleasuredome .