amusement 
amuse·ment (ə myo̵̅o̅z′mənt)
noun
- the condition of being amused
- something that amuses or entertains; entertainment
Converse of object
- afford: To all who are fond of garden scenes, in the great stile of Brown's finest works, Bowood will afford considerable amusement.
- cause: This also caused yet more amusement in various onlookers.
Adjective modifier
- wry: Not, of course, a happy smile, nor one of wry amusement.
- endless: Another source of endless amusement to us greenkeeping folk is the quality of ladies ' golf.
- innocent: The story concerns four teenagers who vist a local carnival for a night of innocent amusement.
- much: Their arrival on the music scene heralded much amusement.
- considerable: To all who are fond of garden scenes, in the great stile of Brown's finest works, Bowood will afford considerable amusement.
- favorite: Today rafting trips are among the favorite amusements in Jamaica.
Modifies a noun
- arcade: All amusement arcades need a license to enable the public to play on fruit machines where a cash prize can be won.
- park: Do you think amusement parks should not be allowed to keep wild animals?
- ride: Consider the analogy of an amusement park ride with a queue of people waiting to experience the ride.
- machine: Full details of the taxation of amusement machines, including fixed odds betting machines, have been released.
- permit: An amusement permit applied where there was a mixture of amusement and gaming machines or purely gaming machines.
- device: BACTA have produced booklets for guidance on the manufacture, operation, maintenance & examination of coin-operated amusement devices.
Noun used with modifier
- fairground: Fairground amusements appeared on the seafront and the Punch and Judy booth became a familiar sight on the beach.
- seaside: Great Yarmouth Beach: : 25 minutes Famous for their sandy expanses and seaside amusements.
- m: The help of m m amusement video brock peters the profits it.
Preposition: of
- crowd: He's been getting that for five years, " said Nicol, much to the amusement of the capacity crowd.
- rest: The dusty safari drive also left one jeep load of students resembling chimney sweeps much to the amusement of the rest of the group.
Preposition: with
- prise: Children must not be permitted to operate any amusement with prizes or video machines which are in the licensed premises.
If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their inclination by hindering them of the diverting part of it. It is as necessary for the amusement of women as the reputation of men; but teach them not to expect anyapplause from it Ignorance is as much the fountain of vice as idleness, and indeed generally produces it. People that do not read or work for a livelihood have many hours they know not how to employ, especially women, who commonly fall into vapours or something worse.
But no oneshall find merowing againstthestream.I care not who knows itöI write for the general amusement.
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I canonlycomparetoa stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de¤ sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve¤ rifie¤ , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.
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