How to Spell interest
interest
interest - noun
- A feeling that accompanies or causes special attention to something or someone : concern
- Something or someone that arouses such attention
- A quality in a thing or person arousing interest
- Advantage, benefit
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"returned the insults with interest"
Etymology
Middle English, probably alteration of earlier interesse, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin, from Latin, to be between, make a difference, concern, from inter- + esse to be