different between entertainment vs festival

English

Alternative forms

• entretainment (chiefly archaic)
• intertainment (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English entretenement (“support, maintenance”), from Old French entretenement; see entertain.

Morphologically entertain +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.t??te?n.m?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?nm?nt

Noun

entertainment (countable and uncountable, plural entertainments)

1. 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.
2. A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
3. (obsolete) Maintenance or support.
4. (obsolete) Admission into service; service.
5. (obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
   • Sir John Davies

     The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

6. (obsolete) Reception; (provision of) food to guests or travellers.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene 4,^[1]

     I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold

     Can in this desert place buy entertainment,

     Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed.

   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 61,^[2]

     Tho’ they cut [the beef] into long Pieces, (like Ropes) with the Hide; and dress’d, and eat it half-roasted according to their Custom, and gave it me in the same Manner; yet I thought this contemptible Food, and what a Beggar in England would not have touch’d, the most delicious Entertainment I ever met with.

Translations

Further reading

• entertainment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• entertainment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• entertainment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• entretainment

English

Etymology

From Old French festival, from Late Latin f?st?v?lis, from Latin f?st?vus (“festive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?st?v?l/

Adjective

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

1. Pertaining to a feast or feast day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

Noun

festival (plural festivals)

1. (biblical) A feast or feast day.
   • Deuteronomy 16:16 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

     ¹⁶ All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.

2. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
3. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
4. (Caribbean, Jamaican) fried cornbread

Related terms

• festal
• festive
• festivity
• festivities

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /f?s.ti?val/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /f?s.ti?bal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fes.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Czech

Etymology

From English festival

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?st?val]
• Hyphenation: fe?s?ti?val

Noun

festival m inan

1. festival (an event or community gathering)

Declension

Further reading

• festival in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• festival in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival, from Old French festival, from Late Latin f?st?v?lis, from Latin f?st?vus (“festive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?s.ti?v?l/
• Hyphenation: fes?ti?val

Noun

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)

1. A festival (festive event or gathering).

Derived terms

• dorpsfestival
• festivalganger
• festivalisering
• festivalpubliek
• filmfestival
• kunstfestival
• muziekfestival
• songfestival
• theaterfestival

French

Etymology

From English festival, from Old French festival.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s.ti.val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?s.ti.val/, /fes.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (invariable)

1. festival
2. worker's festival

Synonyms

• mostra
• rassegna

Related terms

• festivaliere
• festivaliero

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From French festival, ultimately from Latin f?st?v?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /f??.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivais)

1. festival

Romanian

Etymology

From French festival.

Noun

festival n (plural festivaluri)

1. festival

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

festìv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. festival

Declension

See also

• praznik

Spanish

Noun

festival m (plural festivales)

1. festival

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French festival.

Noun

festival (definite accusative festivali, plural festivaller)

1. festival

Synonyms

• ?enlik