| 单词 |
entertainer |
| 释义 |
entertainer|ɛntəˈteɪnə(r)|
Also 6–7 interteiner, (6 enterteiner, interteinour).
[f. entertain v. + -er1.]
1. One who receives a guest; one who shows hospitality; a host. Also fig.
1576Fleming Panoplie Ep. 116 Democritus Sicyonius is..my friendly interteiner. 1670Walton Life Wotton 21 He was a great lover of his neighbours, and a bountiful entertainer of them. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) VI. 2220 Their entertainer was very corpulent. 1829Lytton Disowned 11 Having thanked his entertainers for their hospitality. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iv. 728 A graceful diner-out And entertainer more than hospitable.
fig.a1656Bp. Hall Rem. 89 (T.) We become the receptacles and entertainers of his [God's] good Spirit.
b. One who admits to consideration (requests or proposals); one who harbours or cherishes (sentiment, etc.).
1610Shakes. Temp. ii. i. 17 When euery greefe is entertaind, That's offer'd comes to th'entertainer. 1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl. N.T. iv. xxx, Good purposes, when they are not held,..turn enemies to the entertainer of them.
2. One who or that which furnishes amusement; one who gives a public ‘entertainment’.
a1535More On the Passion Wks. 1273/2 She was content to be talkatiue with a straunger, & wax a proper enterteiner. 1793(title), Wonderful Magazine and Marvellous Chronicle, or new weekly entertainer. 1870H. Smart Race for Wife i, Conjurors, lecturers, monologue entertainers.
†3. That which keeps up or promotes. Obs.
1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. (1646) 187 Equality in government is the entertainer of confusion. |
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