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entertainment
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)
- 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.
- A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
- (obsolete) Maintenance or support.
- (obsolete) Admission into service; service.
- (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.
- Sir John Davies
- (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.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene 4,[1]
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
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merriment
English
Etymology
merry +? -ment
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?m??im?nt/, /?m??im?nt/
Noun
merriment (countable and uncountable, plural merriments)
- a state of enjoyable exuberance
- playful fun
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