Entertainment meaning

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Entertainment is defined as a funny or interesting performance or show.

An example of entertainment is a ballet performance.

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The pleasure afforded by being entertained; amusement.

The comedian performed for our entertainment.

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The act of entertaining.
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Maintenance; support.
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Employment.
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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.
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An entertaining or being entertained.
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Something that entertains; interesting, diverting, or amusing thing; esp., a show or performance.
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A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
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The art or field of entertaining.
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Something that amuses, pleases, or diverts, especially a performance or show.
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Admission into service; service.
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Origin of entertainment

  • From Old French entretenement; see entertain.
    From Wiktionary

Entertainment Sentence Examples

  • In his day, Shakespeare was low-brow entertainment for the common class.

  • "It was entertainment for a rainy day," I offered.

  • And further, we must always remember that entertainment and aesthetic effect were at most subsidiary objects.

  • In the Old Town still remain a few specimens of eighteenth century architecture, including several old-fashioned post-houses, which used to furnish entertainment for travellers starting for the Middle West by way of the old Cumberland Road beginning at Fort Cumberland, and from Baltimore to Fort Cumberland by a much older turnpike.

  • Numerous institutions contribute to the entertainment of visitors.

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