different between amusement vs repast

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)

1. (uncountable) Entertainment.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 234a.

     This is some form of amusement you're talking about.

2. (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)

1. entertainment, amusement

Related terms

• amusant
• amuseren

French

Etymology

amuser +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.myz.m??/

Noun

amusement m (plural amusements)

1. amusement

Descendants

• ? English: amusement
• ? German: Amüsement

Further reading

• “amusement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Old French repast, from the verb repaistre, from Latin repascere, from pascere (“to graze”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p??st/
• (US, Northern England) IPA^(key): /???pæst/

Noun

repast (countable and uncountable, plural repasts)

1. (now literary) A meal.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast.

   • 2010, Pseudonymous Bosch, This Isn't What It Looks Like

     "'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast."

2. (archaic, uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.

Translations

Verb

repast (third-person singular simple present repasts, present participle repasting, simple past and past participle repasted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply food to; to feast.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To take food.

Anagrams

• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repats, retaps, tapers, trapes, treaps

Old French

Noun

repast m (oblique plural repaz or repatz, nominative singular repaz or repatz, nominative plural repast)

1. a meal

Descendants

• ? English: repast
• French: repas