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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- enterest (obsolete)
- interess (obsolete)
- intherest (pronunciation spelling, suggesting an Irish accent)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English interest, from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɪntəɹɪst/, /ˈɪntɹɪst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɪntəɹəst/, /ˈɪntɹəst/, /ˈɪntəɹɛst/, /ˈɪntɹɛst/, /ˈɪntəɹst/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪntəɹɪst, -ɪntɹɪst, -ɪntəɹəst, -ɪntɹəst, -ɪntəɹɛst, -ɪntɹɛst, -ɪntəɹst
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧est
Noun[edit]
interest (usually uncountable, plural interests)
- (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%.
- (uncountable, finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
- c. 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 Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- You shall have your desires with interest
- (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.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
- (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- […] 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 and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
- 2013 August 10, “Standing orders”, in The Economist[1], volume 408, number 8848:
- Over the past few years, however, interest has waxed again. A series of epidemiological studies, none big enough to be probative, but all pointing in the same direction, persuaded Emma Wilmot of the University of Leicester, in Britain, to carry out a meta-analysis. This is a technique that combines diverse studies in a statistically meaningful way.
- 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy […]”, in The Guardian Weekly[2], volume 189, number 2, page 30:
- Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
- (countable) 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).
- I have business interests in South Africa.
- She has an interest in the proceedings, and all stakeholders' interests must be protected.
- (countable) Something or someone one is interested in.
- Lexicography is one of my interests.
- Victorian furniture is an interest of mine.
- The main character's romantic interest will be played by a non-professional actor.
- (uncountable) Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
- 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, Essay VIII:
- The conscience, indeed, is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest.
- (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- How can this infinite 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?
- (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
Synonyms[edit]
- (fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed): cost of money, oker
Hyponyms[edit]
Financial terms
- accrued interest
- beneficial interest
- capitalized interest
- carried interest
- compound interest
- consumer interest
- controlling interest
- exact interest
- imputed interest
- insurable interest
- minority interest
- nominee interest
- open interest
- ordinary interest
- prepaid interest
- security interest
- short interest
- simple interest
- true interest cost
- unearned interest
Non-financial terms
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from interest
- adverse interest
- adverse interest rule
- by-interest
- community interest company
- deposit interest retention tax
- executory interest
- expression of interest
- fee simple subject to executory interest
- interest-bearing
- interest-free
- interest in land
- interest inventory
- interest rate
- interest rate guarantee
- interest rate swap
- interest-sensitive
- in the interest of justice
- in the interest of time
- national interest
- negative interest
- of interest
- overinterest
- person of interest
- point of interest
- riding interest
- rooting interest
- self-interest
- shifting executory interest
- special interest group
- springing executory interest
- supercompound interest
- super-compound interest
- uninterest
- vest in interest
Financial terms
Non-financial terms
Translations[edit]
finance: price of credit
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great attention and concern from someone
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attention that is given to or received from someone or something
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involvement in or link with financial, business, or other undertaking
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something one is interested in
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(obsolete in English) compensation for injury
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Verb[edit]
interest (third-person singular simple present interests, present participle interesting, simple past and past participle interested)
- To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
- It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
- Action films don't really interest me.
- (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
- 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
- Or rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory, since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel.
- 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
- (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to attract attention or concern
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Further reading[edit]
- "interest" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 171.
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Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Doublet of interesse.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
interest m (plural interesten, diminutive interestje n)
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Descendants[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
interest
References[edit]
- “interest”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “interest”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- interest in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Middle French[edit]
Noun[edit]
interest m (plural interests)
- interest (great attention and concern from someone or something)
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