entertainment
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.
Other meanings
A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
Maintenance or support.
Synonyms
- amusement
Related words
- agri-entertainment
- edutainment
- entertainment center
- entertainment centre
- entertrainment
- light entertainment
- military-entertainment complex
- sports entertainment
- entertainment value
- advertainment
- agritainment
- angertainment
Word history
From Old French "entretenement".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “entertainment” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.