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amusement
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French amusement, from amuser +? -ment.
Morphologically amuse +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mjuzm?nt/
- Hyphenation: a?muse?ment
Noun
amusement (countable and uncountable, plural amusements)
- (uncountable) Entertainment.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 234a.
- This is some form of amusement you're talking about.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 234a.
- (countable) An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French amusement.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?.my.z??m?nt/
- Hyphenation: amu?se?ment
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
amusement n (uncountable)
- entertainment, amusement
Related terms
- amusant
- amuseren
French
Etymology
amuser +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.myz.m??/
Noun
amusement m (plural amusements)
- amusement
Descendants
- ? English: amusement
- ? German: Amüsement
Further reading
- “amusement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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gambol
English
Etymology
From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /??æm.b?l/
- Rhymes: -æmb?l
- Homophone: gamble
Verb
gambol (third-person singular simple present gambols, present participle (UK) gambolling or (US) gamboling, simple past and past participle (UK) gambolled or (US) gamboled)
- (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.
- 1835: William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution, chapter XI, page 134 (Harper)
- The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled.
- In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.
- 1835: William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution, chapter XI, page 134 (Harper)
- (Britain, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.
Translations
Noun
gambol (plural gambols)
- An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
- An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.
Translations
Tagalog
Adjective
gamból
- badly beaten up (as of the body)
- badly bruised (as of fruits, the body, etc.)
Derived terms
- gambulin
- gumambol
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