enterest
enterest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of enter.
enterest is the obsolete form of interest.
Meaning of enter
Verb
enter (third-person singular simple present enters, present participle entering, simple past and past participle entered)
- To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
- You should knock before you enter, unless you want to see me naked.
- To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
- to enter a knife into a piece of wood
- To go or come into (a state or profession).
- My twelve-year-old son will be entering his teens next year.
- To type (something) into a computer; to input.
- Enter your user name and password.
- To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
- Each amount entered in the debit column of the journal is posted by entering it on the credit side/column of an account in the ledger.2003, A. Mukherjee, M. Hanif, Financial Accounting, →ISBN, page 27
- Used as a stage direction, usually preceding the name of the character who appears.
Meaning of interest
Noun
interest (usually uncountable, plural interests)
- The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
- Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
- Synonyms:
- cost of money, oker
- Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
- You shall have your desires with interestc. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
- He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
- Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- Advantage, welfare, or something that serves it.
- The whole difference comes down to this, that Trotsky believed himself to 'represent the historical interests of the proletariat', while Stalin believed that he, Stalin, did so.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...
- An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
- When scientists and doctors write articles and when politicians run for office, they are required in many countries to declare any existing conflicts of interest (competing interests).
Forms of enterest
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | enterests |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | enterests |
| present participle | enteresting |
| past participle | enterested |
| past | enterested |
Origin of enterest
From enter + -est.
Questions about enterest
- What is enterest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Enterest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of enter.
Words near enterest in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: enterest (page history and authors); enter (page history and authors); interest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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