transitive. To provide (a person or group) with a feast; esp. to hold a banquet for (guests), to host or serve a sumptuous meal for (someone)…

transitive. To provide (a person or group) with a feast, to host or serve a sumptuous meal for; = feast, v. 2a. Also intransitive: to participate in…

transitive. To rebuke, scold, berate. Also with at and intransitive.

transitive. To welcome, treat hospitably; esp. to entertain with feasting and hospitality; to provide with good food and drink. Cf. cheer, n.1 6. Obs…

transitive. To provide (a guest or customer) with food or hospitality at table; to provide with daily meals; = board, v. 8. Now rare.

To entertain, esp. with food and drink; to show hospitality to; to regale, feast, esp. at one's own expense, by way of kindness or compliment, or…

transitive. To entertain at a banquet or banquets; to provide a banquet for, to feast, regale.

transitive. To entertain (someone) in the kitchen; to cook for (someone). Obsolete.

transitive. To provide a feast for; to entertain with food and drink. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To entertain (a person) with lavish hospitality; to provide with abundant or rich food or drink. Also in extended use.

transitive. To entertain with a collation.

transitive. To entertain and honour (a person) with a fête, feast, party, etc. Also: to commemorate or celebrate (an event) in this way.

transitive. colloquial. To buy (food or drink) by way of compliment or hospitality (usually with a person as indirect object). Also: to treat (a…

transitive. To treat (one) to sock; to present or give (something) to one.

To treat (someone) to. U.S. slang. Also reflexive. (See also quot. 1889.)