v.
  - provide with amusement or enjoyment. ▸show hospitality to. 
- give attention or consideration to.
Derivative
  
    - entertaining adj.
- entertainingly adv.
- entertainer n.
 
  Etymology
  ME (orig. in the sense ‘maintain, continue’, later ‘treat in a certain way’): from Fr. entretenir, based on L. inter ‘among’ + tenere ‘to hold’.