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ENTERTAINED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pleasantly occupied
Example:
We are not amused
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb entertain
Context examples:
I do not know a more luxurious state, sir, than sitting at one's ease to be entertained a whole evening by two such young women; sometimes with music and sometimes with conversation.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The card-table was then placed, and Elinor began to wonder at herself for having ever entertained a hope of finding time for conversation at the park.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I recoiled before contemplation of that frightful death, and for a moment I entertained the wild idea of seizing Maud in my arms and leaping overboard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
That neither Harville nor his wife entertained a doubt of our mutual attachment.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
As she grew, her mother began to feel that the Dovecote would be blessed by the presence of an inmate as serene and loving as that which had helped to make the old house home, and to pray that she might be spared a loss like that which had lately taught them how long they had entertained an angel unawares.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The general public, however, which most unreasonably entertained a grievance at having been excluded, stormed the doors at a quarter to eight, after a prolonged melee in which several people were injured, including Inspector Scoble of H. Division, whose leg was unfortunately broken.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It might have simplified my office very much, if I had known it before. But I confess I entertained another impression.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I mentioned in my last letter the fears I entertained of a mutiny.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The little which she could understand, however, appeared to contradict the very few notions she had entertained on the matter before.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He was single-purposed, and entertained but one thought or desire at a time.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
