entertainment

CEFRB1

/ˌɛn.təˈteɪn.mənt/

noun

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Maintenance or support.
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.
An admission into service; a service.

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Television and other forms of entertainment
The delinquents are generally the adventurous type, who have little use for reading and other non-active entertainment.
Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]

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The delinquents are generally the adventurous type, who have little use for reading and other non-active entertainment.
1957, William O. Douglas, Roth v. United States
Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...
"This," said the matronly presence, ushering me into a low room on the right, "is where the Travellers sit by the fire, and cook what bits of suppers they buy with their fourpences." "O! Then they have no Entertainment?" said I. For the inscription over the outer door was still running in my head, and I was mentally repeating, in a kind of tune, "Lodging, entertainment, and fourpence each."
1854?, Charles Dickens, The Seven Poor Travellers
He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment.
1601-1608, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.
1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

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