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# fun

«fun» in Mova's school dictionary: **Enjoyment and pleasure; a good time: «We had fun at the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fun — uncountable); adjective (fun, more fun, most fun — informal: funner, funnest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Enjoyment and pleasure; a good time: «We had fun at the party». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#m1)

2) Enjoyable: «a fun game». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#m2)

3) Make fun of: to laugh at someone in an unkind way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#m3)

4) If you do something in fun, you do it as a joke and not seriously. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: games, play, parties, holidays. In feelings and bullying lessons: «making fun of» someone hurts; joking is fun only if everyone is laughing. In stories: fun scenes show characters enjoying themselves. Phrases: have fun, for fun, just for fun, make fun of, fun fact, great fun, more fun, it's no fun.

### examples

- We had lots of fun at the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#x1)
- Have fun at the sleepover! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#x2)
- Swimming is fun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#x3)
- Here's a fun fact: an octopus has three hearts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#x4)
- It's not kind to make fun of people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#x5)
- We played the game just for fun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#x6)
- It's no fun playing alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#x7)
- The fair was great fun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#x8)
- It was only said in fun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: «a lot of fun», not «a fun» or «funs». Correct comparisons are «more fun, most fun»; «funner, funnest» are used by children but are not standard. «Fun» (enjoyable) vs «funny» (makes you laugh): a fun day; a funny joke.

### In the corpora

- [While a parent is unemployed the family may claim benefits and cut spending; free fun like parks and libraries helps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/9/)
- [Then they choose the cheap fun: a picnic and a library trip instead of the cinema.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/6/)
- [Big family gatherings bring together relatives who rarely meet, and they can be fun and stressful at the same time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/9/)
- ["When the fun stops, stop" is a warning betting adverts must include, because gambling can become an addiction.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/15/)
- [Grown-ups love swapping it over the fence, and a lot of it is harmless fun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fun» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fun/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.