Entertain vs. Tolerate — What's the Difference?

Provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment

Allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) without interference

Give attention or consideration to (an idea or feeling)

Be capable of continued subjection to (a drug, toxin, or environmental condition) without adverse reaction

To hold the attention of (someone) with something amusing or diverting.

To refrain from interfering with or prohibiting (something undesirable or outside one's own practice or beliefs); allow or permit

To extend hospitality toward

To recognize and respect (the rights, beliefs, or practices of others).

To consider; contemplate

To accept or be patient regarding (something unpleasant or undesirable); endure

To hold in mind; harbor

(Medicine) To have tolerance for (a substance or pathogen).

(Archaic) To continue with; maintain.

(transitive) To allow or permit without explicit approval, usually if it is perceived as negative.

(Obsolete) To employ; hire.

(transitive) To bear, withstand.

(Obsolete) To give admittance to; receive.

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices.

To show hospitality to guests.

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant;

To provide entertainment.

Recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others);

(transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.

Have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen;

To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.

Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting;

(transitive) To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.

(obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.

(obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.

(obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.

(obsolete) Entertainment; pleasure.

(obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.

To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.

To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.

To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.

To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.

To meet or encounter, as an enemy.

To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.

To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.

To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.

Entertainment.

Provide entertainment for

Take into consideration, have in view;

Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings);