entertainment

entertainment

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˌɛn.təˈteɪn.mənt/]

Senses

1. entertainment (noun) — sense 1

Definition: An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.

Example: The delinquents are generally the adventurous type, who have little use for reading and other non-active entertainment.

2. entertainment (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.

3. entertainment (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Maintenance or support.

Example: "This," said the matronly presence, ushering me into a low room on the right, "is where the Travellers sit by the fire, and cook what bits of suppers they buy with their fourpences."
"O! Then they have no Entertainment?" said I. For the inscription over the outer door was still running in my head, and I was mentally repeating, in a kind of tune, "Lodging, entertainment, and fourpence each."

Structure of the word

Roots:
  • ten (Proto-Indo-European)

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