entertainment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English entretenement (“support, maintenance”), from Old French entretenement; see entertain. Morphologically entertain + -ment.
Base: entertain
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: entertainments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: entretainment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: intertainment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The delinquents are generally the adventurous type, who have little use for reading and other non-active entertainment.
Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
gloss: A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Maintenance or support.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: "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."
gloss: An admission into service; a service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment.
gloss: The payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.
gloss: A reception; a (provision of) food to guests or travellers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold
Can in this desert place buy entertainment,
Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed.
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.
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:
lang: Albanian
word: argëtim
lang: Bulgarian
word: заба́ва
roman: zabáva
lang: Bulgarian
word: представле́ние
roman: predstavlénie
lang: Danish
word: underholdning
lang: Finnish
word: näytös
lang: Greek
word: θέαμα
roman: théama
lang: Hebrew
word: מופע
roman: mofa
lang: Italian
word: intrattenimento
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ئاھەنگ
roman: aheng
lang: Macedonian
word: претстава
roman: pretstava
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: underholdning
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: underhalding
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: underhaldning
lang: Polish
word: widowisko
lang: Portuguese
word: entretenimento
lang: Romanian
word: spectacol
lang: Russian
word: развлече́ние
roman: razvlečénije
lang: Russian
word: представле́ние
roman: predstavlénije
lang: Russian
word: интерте́ймент
roman: intertɛ́jment
lang: Scots
word: enterteenment
lang: Spanish
word: espectáculo
lang: Swahili
word: burudani
lang: Swedish
word: underhållning
lang: Yiddish
word: אויפֿפֿירונג
roman: oyffirung
lang: Yiddish
word: שוישפּיל
roman: shoyshpil
lang: Yiddish
word: אויסשטעל
roman: oysshtel
lang: Yiddish
word: אויסשטעלונג
roman: oysshtelung
lang: Yiddish
word: פּראָדוקציע
roman: produktsye
lang: Yiddish
word: ספּעקטאַקל
roman: spektakl