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entertainment en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌɛn.(t)ɚˈteɪn.mənt/ (General-American)
• /ˌɛn.təˈteɪn.mənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • 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 ...:
   • 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:
2. (countable, uncountable) A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Maintenance or support.
   • "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:
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) An admission into service; a service.
   • He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment. 1601-1608, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well:
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
   • 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:
6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A reception; a (provision of) food to guests or travellers.
   • 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. 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 61:
   • I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold Can in this desert place buy entertainment, Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed. c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

Forms

Deriveds

shoppertainment · tittytainment · entertainment center · retailtainment · militainment · irritainment · newstainment · light entertainment · entertainment centre · advertainment · entertrainment · nonentertainment · agri-entertainment · eatertainment · docutainment · exertainment · entertainment value · infotainment · cricketainment · military-entertainment complex · angertainment · entertoyment · sports entertainment · agritainment · edutainment

Synonyms

fare

Translations (164)

be уце́ха (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ky көңүл ачуу (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · fi näytös (show for enjoyment) · uk уті́ха (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · da morskab (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · nl verstrooiing (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · nn underhalding (show for enjoyment) · be заба́ўка (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · sq dëfrim (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · yi שוישפּיל (show for enjoyment) · ja エンターテイメント (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · da underholdning (show for enjoyment) · ro petrecere (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · hu szórakozás (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · yi הנאה (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · vi sự giải trí (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · bg заба́ва (show for enjoyment) · la oblectāmentum (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · yi אויסשטעלונג (show for enjoyment) · nb underholdning (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · nl amusement (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · eo amuzaĵo (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ar تَسْلِيَة (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · mk разо́нода (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ko 엔터테인먼트 (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · vi giải trí (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ckb رابواردن (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ia intertenimento (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · uk розва́га (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · km ហសាភិប្រាយ (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · mr मनोरंजन (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · pl zabawa (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · he בִּדּוּר (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · bn বিনোদন (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · nan-hbl 娛樂 /娱乐 (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ota كیف (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ru уте́ха (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · sv underhållning (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · uk розра́да (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ota جنبش (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · yi ספּעקטאַקל (show for enjoyment) · et meelelahutus (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · my အပျော်အပါး (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · tl paglilibang (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · he מופע (show for enjoyment) · be заба́ва (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · es entretenimiento (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · uz oʻyin-kulgi (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · it intrattenimento (show for enjoyment) · el θέαμα (show for enjoyment) · ga siamsa (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · th ความบันเทิง (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · tl pag-aaliw (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · te వినోదం (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · nn underhaldning (show for enjoyment) · pl rozrywka (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ur تَفْرِیح (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · es entretención (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · sk zábava (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · lt pramoga (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · sq argëtim (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · gd dibhearsan (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · it intrattenimento (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ajp تسلية (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · id hiburan (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · kk алданыш (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ro divertisment (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · sh за̑бава (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ru развлече́ние (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ja 娯楽 (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · sv underhållning (show for enjoyment) · fa-ira تَفْریح (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · be разры́ўка (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · sh zȃbava (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ro spectacol (show for enjoyment) · mr करमणूक (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · yi צײַטפֿאַטרײַב (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ru поте́ха (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · lv izklaide (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · tg саргармшавӣ (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · tg вақтхушӣ (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · cmn 娛樂 /娱乐 (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · tr eğlence (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · is skemmtun (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · uk заба́ва (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · es espectáculo (show for enjoyment) · ru развлече́ние (show for enjoyment) · sco enterteenment (show for enjoyment) · th การบันเทิง (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · mk претстава (show for enjoyment) · yi תּענוג (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · sl zabȃva (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · it divertimento (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ar تَفْرِيح (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · de Unterhaltung (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ckb ئاھەنگ (show for enjoyment) · uk розри́вка (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · es trebejo (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ar تَرْفِيه (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · yi אונטערהאַלטונג (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · kaa ishret (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · kw didhanedh (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · la oblectāmen (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · da underholdning (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ca entreteniment (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · fa-ira سَرْگَرْمی (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · hi मनोरंजन (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · eo spektaĵo (show for enjoyment) · km កំសាន្ត (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ja エンタメ (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · pt entretenimento (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ru интерте́ймент (show for enjoyment) · sco enterteenment (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · nl vermaak (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ajp تسلية (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · yi אויפֿפֿירונג (show for enjoyment) · yi פּראָדוקציע (show for enjoyment) · fi viihde (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · pt entretenimento (show for enjoyment) · bg забавле́ние (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ast entretenimientu (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · tg тафреҳ (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · mk за́бава (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ro distracție (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · kk ойын-сауық (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ka გასართობი (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · yue 娛樂 /娱乐 (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · cy adloniant (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · nb underholdning (show for enjoyment) · ar لَهْو (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · sq argëtim (show for enjoyment) · az əyləncə (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ms hiburan (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · cs zábava (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · sw burudani (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · yi הנאָהדיקײַט (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ky эрмек (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ps تفرېح (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ko 오락 (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · fr divertissement (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · hy ժամանց (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · gl entretemento (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · tl aliwan (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ar تَرْفِيه (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · bg развлече́ние (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · lo ການບັນເທີງ (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · uk за́бавка (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · el ψυχαγωγία (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · uz ermak (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ota رامش (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ru представле́ние (show for enjoyment) · ajp تَرْفِيه (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ky оюн-зоок (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · af vermaak (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · be паце́ха (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · sw burudani (show for enjoyment) · yi אויסשטעל (show for enjoyment) · el διασκέδαση (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · bg представле́ние (show for enjoyment) · th มหรสพ (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · pl widowisko (show for enjoyment) · ru заба́ва (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · hak 娛樂 /娱乐 (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation) · ja エンターテインメント (activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation)