entertainment

Meanings

Plural: entertainments

Noun

• an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention
• 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.
• A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
• Maintenance or support.
• Admission into service; service.
• Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
• Reception; (provision of) food to guests or travellers.

Synonyms

amusement