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ENTERTAINMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An activity that is diverting and that holds the attention
Synonyms:
amusement; entertainment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("entertainment" is a kind of...):
diversion; recreation (an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entertainment"):
beguilement; distraction (an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations)
edutainment (entertainment that is intended to be educational)
extravaganza (any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment)
militainment (entertainment with military themes in which the Department of Defense is celebrated)
night life; nightlife (the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion)
show (the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining)
Derivation:
entertain (provide entertainment for)
Context examples:
In nearby Hiko, a "Storm Area 51 Basecamp Experience" was underway with music and other entertainment.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
On the present occasion, for the better entertainment of their visitor, towards whose amusement he felt himself bound to contribute, he wished to engage them for both.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I wondered what they were going to do the first evening a change of entertainment was proposed: they spoke of "playing charades," but in my ignorance I did not understand the term.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Besides, he no longer had opportunity to see much of her in her own home, where Mrs. Morse was thoroughly prosecuting her campaign of entertainment.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions; and, in observing the appearance of the country, the bearings of the roads, the difference of soil, the state of the harvest, the cottages, the cattle, the children, she found entertainment that could only have been heightened by having Edmund to speak to of what she felt.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Anne's mind was in a most favourable state for the entertainment of the evening; it was just occupation enough: she had feelings for the tender, spirits for the gay, attention for the scientific, and patience for the wearisome; and had never liked a concert better, at least during the first act.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It would have been entertainment.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They gave as another reason for their defeat the extraordinary state of drouth to which they had been reduced by the dusty nature of their occupation and the reprehensible distance from the scene of their labours of any place of public entertainment.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“I have been at the play, too,” said I. “At Covent Garden. What a delightful and magnificent entertainment, Steerforth!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
