Entertainment Meaning
/ˌɛn.təˈteɪn.mənt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn 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.
nounA show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
Sentence Examples
Australians excel at sports and entertainment.
This is a movie which combines education with entertainment.
Television and other forms of entertainment
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The traveling circus provided wonderful ____ for the small town residents.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The city offers a wide variety of ____, including cinemas and concerts.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English entretenement (“support, maintenance”), from Old French entretenement; see entertain. Morphologically entertain + -ment.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The traveling circus provided wonderful ____ for the small town residents.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The city offers a wide variety of ____, including cinemas and concerts.