ENTERTAINMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entertainment mean? 

• ENTERTAINMENT (noun)
  The noun ENTERTAINMENT has 1 sense:

1. an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention

  Familiarity information: ENTERTAINMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTERTAINMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An activity that is diverting and that holds the attention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

amusement; entertainment

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 

But it is impossible to express the satisfaction I received in my own mind, after such a manner as to make it a suitable entertainment to the reader.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I am sure it was a source of high entertainment to you, to feel that you were taking us all in.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I could not enough admire the change he had wrought in the Golden Cross; or compare the dull forlorn state I had held yesterday, with this morning's comfort and this morning's entertainment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When the entertainment was over, Thorpe came to assist them in getting out.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Let’s also look at the sign this February 8 full moon falls in—Leo, linked to theatre and entertainment.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A wide variety of activities is represented, including self-care tasks, personal/household work, entertainment/social activities, and independent exercise pursuits.

(Human Activity Profile Test, NCI Thesaurus)

Mrs. Bennet had so carefully provided for the entertainment of her brother and sister, that they did not once sit down to a family dinner.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was a bright enough little place of entertainment.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A class of professional or vocational positions of employment that involve arts, design, entertainment, sports or media.

(Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports and Media Occupations, NCI Thesaurus)