[seanmcdirmid]

That's easy, the word is well defined in the dictionary: a person or thing to which a specified action or feeling is directed. Some people try to call objects entities and claim they are doing something else, but they are just doing the same thing with different words.

[lomnakkus]

Uh, how does that relate to the semantics of the language? (Formally, not dictionarily.)

EDIT: I was being a bit facetious, but we were discussing programming languages, so maybe not that much of a stretch...?