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interest

Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.tɹɛst/

The English word “interest” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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.
  2. Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
  3. A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
  4. Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
  5. Advantage, welfare, or something that serves it.
  6. An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
  7. Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.
  8. Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
  9. Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
  10. The persons and companies interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
  11. A genre of factual short films, generally more amusing than informative, especially those not covered by a more specific genre label.

verb

  1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
  2. To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
  3. To cause or permit to share.

Etymology

From Middle English interest, from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.

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