Entertainment
[entə'teɪnm(ə)nt] or ['ɛntɚ'tenmənt]
Definition
(noun.) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention.
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Definition
(n.) The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.
(n.) That which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: (a) Hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) That which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation, etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement.
(n.) Admission into service; service.
(n.) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hospitable treatment.[2]. Feast, banquet, treat, COLLATION, festival.[3]. Amusement, diversion, recreation, pastime.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of an entertainment where there is music and dancing, you will have pleasant tidings of the absent, and enjoy health and prosperity. To the young, this is a dream of many and varied pleasures and the high regard of friends.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
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Examples
- Selden, catching the glance, wondered what part Miss Bart had played in organizing the entertainment. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This being evidently the central point of the entertainment, Aunt Chloe began now to bustle about earnestly in the supper department. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was good entertainment; but only half-enjoyed, since I was alone: you should have been there. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Books with their wealth of entertainment and information would be sealed to a large part of mankind, if glasses did not assist weak eyes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I believe I and my family have also had the honour of furnishing some entertainment in the same grave place, said my guardian composedly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The management beg leave to offer to the public an entertainment surpassing in magnificence any thing that has heretofore been attempted on any stage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Gerald, who was spokesman, said that they would willingly take part in the entertainment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But I was restlessly curious to look at her--so curious that I felt it to be one of the few sources of entertainment left to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Christians upon a journey were always sure of a warm welcome and hospitable entertainment from their fellow-disciples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The industry employs many thousands of people in the manufacture of these instruments and records which afford entertainment, instruction and amusement to the entire world. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Some rousing choruses struck me as the best part of the evening's entertainment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And she brought him in the Morning Post, with the names of all the great people who had figured at Lord Steyne's entertainment the night before. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Poor little Amelia never missed one of these entertainments and thought them delicious so long as she might have Georgy sitting by her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He considered that the freedom of entertainments takes away all distinction of office, and that dignity is but little consistent with familiarity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were much given to festivals and shows, and, in particular, they were addicted to bull-fights and gymnastic entertainments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was a ball after the dramatic entertainments, and everybody pressed round Becky as the great point of attraction of the evening. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs. Crawley, who had her carriage, gave entertainments, and lived in a very genteel manner, occupied another suite of apartments in the same hotel. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- All parties and entertainments, of course, were to be put off. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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