interest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From Middle English interest, from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.
Inflected forms:
form: interests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enterest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: interess
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: intherest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: interests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interested
pos: verb
tags: past
form: enterest
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: interess
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: intherest
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
gloss: Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: You shall have your desires with interest
gloss: A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
I have a lot of interest in doing online coding.
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.
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.”
gloss: Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: […] 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.
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.
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."
gloss: An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: 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.
However he lost out, as other business interests whom he had alienated by his efforts to squeeze every penny of profit from the canal, supported the construction of the railway.
gloss: Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The Conscience indeed is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest: […]
gloss: Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
uncountable
usually
examples: 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?
gloss: The persons and companies interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
uncountable
usually
examples: the iron interest;  the cotton interest
The ‘Railway Interest’ in Parliament constituted a very powerful lobby at this time [mid to late nineteenth century]. It was pledged to put the railway case forward in all matters involving that industry that came before Parliament. This body of MPs was composed of men who were nearly all railway directors or major shareholders. Their influence waned in the early twentieth century but earlier they formed a phalanx of robust opposition to just about every proposal for government regulation of matters pertaining to railways.
gloss: A genre of factual short films, generally more amusing than informative, especially those not covered by a more specific genre label.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
historical
uncountable
usually
examples: By interest films is meant a variety of subjects which cannot be classified under such recognized headings as fiction, travel, or topical. They include wonderful inventions, little known industries, applied art, feats of engineering, and other events capable of effective illustration.
The arrangements made ensured that the total cost of censorship could be kept down to one-fifth of a penny per foot of film censored (and even one-tenth of a penny per foot in cases of Topical, Travel, Interest and Educational Films).
At the top of Charing Cross Road is the "Tatler," which has specialised for a long time in a general sort of program, built up of about 15 minutes of news, a cartoon (sometimes two), an interest picture, occasionally a comedy, and nearly always a documentary.
gloss: To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
pos: verb
examples: It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
Action films don't really interest me.
gloss: To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
obsolete
often
examples: Oh, rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory; since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel; valued least, / I am his equal.
gloss: To cause or permit to share.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: 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: bore
disinterest
Derived words: conflict of interest
interest group
interestable
interested
interesting
reinterest
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: interesim
lang: Southern Altai
word: јилбӱ
roman: ǰilbü
lang: Arabic
word: اِهْتِمَام
roman: ihtimām
lang: Armenian
word: հետաքրքրություն
roman: hetakʻrkʻrutʻyun
lang: Azerbaijani
word: maraq
lang: Belarusian
word: ціка́васць
roman: cikávascʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: інтарэ́с
roman: intarés
lang: Bulgarian
word: интере́с
roman: interés
lang: Catalan
word: interès
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 興趣 /兴趣
roman: hing³ ceoi³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 興趣 /兴趣
roman: xìngqù
lang: Czech
word: zájem
lang: Danish
word: interesse
lang: Dutch
word: interesse
lang: Esperanto
word: intereso
lang: Estonian
word: huvi
lang: Finnish
word: kiinnostus
lang: Finnish
word: mielenkiinto
lang: French
word: intérêt
lang: German
word: Interesse
lang: Greek
word: ενδιαφέρον
roman: endiaféron
lang: Hebrew
word: עניין \ עִנְיָן
roman: inyán
lang: Hindi
word: रुचि
roman: ruci
lang: Hungarian
word: érdeklődés
lang: Icelandic
word: áhugi
lang: Indonesian
word: minat
lang: Indonesian
word: ketertarikan
lang: Interlingua
word: interesse
lang: Irish
word: spéis
lang: Irish
word: suim
lang: Italian
word: interesse
lang: Japanese
word: 興味
roman: kyōmi
lang: Japanese
word: 関心
roman: kanshin
lang: Kazakh
word: қызығу
roman: qyzyğu
lang: Korean
word: 흥미
roman: heungmi
lang: Korean
word: 관심
roman: gwansim
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: mereq
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: balkêşî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: entres
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кызыгуу
roman: kızıguu
lang: Latvian
word: interese
lang: Lithuanian
word: interesas
lang: Lithuanian
word: domėjimasis
lang: Lithuanian
word: susidomėjimas
lang: Macedonian
word: интерес
roman: interes
lang: Malay
word: minat
lang: Malayalam
word: താല്പര്യം
roman: tālparyaṁ
lang: Manx
word: foayr
lang: Māori
word: aronga
lang: Marathi
word: स्वारस्य
roman: svārasya
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: interesse
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: interesse
lang: Occitan
word: interès
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اِهْتِمام
roman: ehtemâm
lang: Iranian Persian
word: عَلاقِه
roman: alâġe
lang: Polish
word: zainteresowanie
lang: Portuguese
word: interesse
lang: Romanian
word: interes
lang: Romanian
word: interes material
lang: Russian
word: интере́с
roman: interés
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: suim
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: и̏нтере̄с
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȉnterēs
lang: Sicilian
word: ntiressi
lang: Slovak
word: záujem
lang: Slovene
word: zanimanje
lang: Slovene
word: interes
lang: Spanish
word: interés
lang: Spanish
word: aras
lang: Swedish
word: intresse
lang: Tagalog
word: kawilihan
lang: Tajik
word: шавқ
roman: šavq
lang: Tamil
word: அக்கறை
roman: akkaṟai
lang: Telugu
word: ఆసక్తి
roman: āsakti
lang: Turkish
word: ilgi
lang: Udmurt
word: тунсык
roman: tunsyk
lang: Udmurt
word: интерес
roman: inťeres
lang: Ukrainian
word: ціка́вість
roman: cikávistʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: інтере́с
roman: interés
lang: Urdu
word: دِلْچَسْپی
roman: dilcaspī
lang: Urdu
word: عِلاقَہ
roman: 'ilāqa
lang: Volapük
word: nited