entertain

Other forms of entertain

past tense

entertained·

present participle

entertaining·

third person

entertains·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about entertain

What does entertain mean?

entertain means "provide entertainment for". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in entertain?

entertain has 3 syllables: en-ter-tain. The stress falls on "tain". In IPA it is /ˌɛntɚˈteɪn/.

What is another word for entertain?

Close synonyms include think of, toy with, flirt with, think about, harbor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is entertain a common word?

entertain is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with entertain?

10 words rhyme with entertain. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.