interest

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • (RP) IPA: /ˈɪntɹɛst/
  • (US) IPA: /ˈɪntɹəst/, /ˈɪntəɹəst/
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Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

interest (plural interests)

  1. (uncountable, finance) 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. [from earlier 16th c.]
    Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
  2. (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. [from later 18th c.]
    He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
  3. (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
  4. (countable) A business or amorous link or involvement.
    I have business interests in South Africa.
  5. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:
      How can this infinit beauty, power and goodnes admit any correspondencie or similitude with a thing so base and abject as we are, without extreme interest and manifest derogation from his divine greatnesse?

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Verb[edit]

interest (third-person singular simple present interests, present participle interesting, simple past and past participle interested)

  1. To attract attention or concern.
    It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.

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Noun[edit]

interest m (plural interesten, diminutive interestje)

  1. (finance) interest

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Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

interest

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of intersum

Middle French[edit]

Noun[edit]

interest m (plural interests)

  1. interest (great attention and concern from someone or something)