entertainment
An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation…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.
» Tom is in charge of the entertainment.
Meaning
6 senses(countable, uncountable)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.
Unterhaltung
развлече́ниеrazvlečénije, заба́ваzabáva, поте́хаpotéxa
розва́гаrozváha, заба́ваzabáva, за́бавкаzábavka
(countable, uncountable)A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Maintenance or support.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)An admission into service; a service.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A reception; a (provision of) food to guests or travellers.
- an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention
Examples
91 sentencesTom is in charge of the entertainment.
We're hungry for entertainment.
Entertainment will be provided.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Релігія одного віку це літературне дозвілля наступного.
deDie Religion einer Epoche ist die literarische Zerstreuung der nachfolgenden.
We're tonight's entertainment.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English entretenement (“support, maintenance”), from Old French entretenement;From Middle English entretenement (“support, maintenance”), from Old French entretenement; see entertain. Morphologically entertain + -ment.
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Forms
plural: entertainmentsSynonyms
2 synonymsWord family
25 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable