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What (who) is fun - definition
ENJOYMENT OF PLEASURE
Having fun; Having Fun; Have fun; Had fun; Has fun; Fuun
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fun
¦ noun light-hearted pleasure or amusement.
?a source of fun: people-watching is great fun.
?playfulness or good humour: she's full of fun.
¦ adjective informal entertaining or enjoyable.
¦ verb (funs, funning, funned) N. Amer. informal joke or tease.
Phrases
in fun not intended seriously.
make fun of tease or laugh at in a mocking or unkind way.
Origin
C17 (denoting a trick or hoax): from obs. fun 'to cheat or hoax', dialect var. of ME fon 'make a fool of, be a fool', related to fon 'a fool', of unknown origin; cf. fond.
fun
n.
1) to have fun (we had a lot of fun)
2) to make fun of smb.; to poke fun at smb.
3) to spoil the fun
4) fun to + inf. (it was fun to go on the roller coaster fun = it was fun going on the roller coaster)
5) for, in fun (to play for fun)
fun
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
You refer to an activity or situation as fun if you think it is pleasant and enjoyable and it causes you to feel happy.
It was such a success and we had so much fun doing it...
It could be fun to watch them...
You still have time to join in the fun.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you say that someone is fun, you mean that you enjoy being with them because they say and do interesting or amusing things.
Liz was wonderful fun to be with.
N-UNCOUNT [approval]
3.
If you describe something as a fun thing, you mean that you think it is enjoyable. If you describe someone as a fun person, you mean that you enjoy being with them. (INFORMAL)
It was a fun evening...
What a fun person he is!
= entertaining
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
Someone who is a figure of fun is considered ridiculous, so that people laugh at them or make jokes about them.
PHRASE: figure inflects, v-link PHR
5.
If you do something for fun or for the fun of it, you do it in order to enjoy yourself rather than because it is important or necessary.
I took my M. A. just for fun really...
He had just come for the fun of it.
PHRASE: PHR after v
6.
If you do something in fun, you do it as a joke or for amusement, without intending to cause any harm.
Don't say such things, even in fun.
PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR
7.
If you make fun of someone or something or poke fun at them, you laugh at them, tease them, or make jokes about them in a way that causes them to seem ridiculous.
Don't make fun of me...
She poked fun at people's shortcomings.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
Wikipedia
Fun
Fun is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "Light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; boisterous joviality or merrymaking; entertainment".
Examples of use of fun
1. "It was fun being a teddy bear, it was a fun job.
2. In my twenties there was no question as to whether to accept – if the invitation appealed and promised fun fun fun, then it was most gratefully accepted.
3. "Being Edna was fun, but becoming Edna was not fun," he says.
4. The engineers were just having fun, a subdued, compassionately conservative kind of fun.
5. "Normality is fun." Doubtless, normality is more fun in Iceland than in Ipswich.