English Explanatory Dictionary

entertainment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
  2. A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
  3. Maintenance or support.
  4. An admission into service; a service.
  5. The payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
  6. A reception; a (provision of) food to guests or travellers.

Pronunciation

/ˌɛn.təˈteɪn.mənt/ /ˌɛn.tɚˈteɪn.mənt/ en-us-entertainment.ogg en-us-entertainment1.ogg

Word forms

entertainment entertainments entretainment intertainment

Etymology

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

Derived words

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

Translations

Albanian: argëtim Bulgarian: заба́ва Bulgarian: представле́ние Danish: underholdning Finnish: näytös Greek: θέαμα Hebrew: מופע Italian: intrattenimento Central Kurdish: ئاھەنگ Macedonian: претстава Norwegian Bokmål: underholdning Norwegian Nynorsk: underhalding Norwegian Nynorsk: underhaldning Polish: widowisko Portuguese: entretenimento Romanian: spectacol Russian: развлече́ние Russian: представле́ние Russian: интерте́ймент Scots: enterteenment Spanish: espectáculo Swahili: burudani Swedish: underhållning Yiddish: אויפֿפֿירונג Yiddish: שוישפּיל Yiddish: אויסשטעל Yiddish: אויסשטעלונג Yiddish: פּראָדוקציע Yiddish: ספּעקטאַקל
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