entertainment
//ˌɛn.təˈteɪn.mənt//
Forms
- Plural
- entertainments
Definitions
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.
- The delinquents are generally the adventurous type, who have little use for reading and other non-active entertainment.
2.A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2472
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English entretenement (“support, maintenance”), from Old French entretenement; see entertain.
Morphologically entertain + -ment.