Meaning of entertainment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Entertain, to amuse and re-create.
2. 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
3. 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.
   countable, uncountable
4. Pleasant activity in that it occupies the free time.
5. A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others
6. A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
   countable, uncountable
7. Action of taking care of something or someone, of keeping something in optimal working condition.
8. Maintenance or support
9. Maintenance or support.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
10. An admission into service; a service
11. An admission into service; a service.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
12. The payment of soldiers or servants; wages
13. The payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
14. A reception; a (provision of) food to guests or travellers.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

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 […]”

“"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."”

“He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment.”

“The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.”

“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.”

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