Definition of Entertainment

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Entertainment

The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.

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.

Admission into service; service.

Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

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Entertainment Quotations

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Tony Robbins

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt Disney

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt Disney

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt Disney

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
Walt Disney

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
David Ogilvy

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Milton Friedman

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
T. S. Eliot

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
Samuel Goldwyn

Entertainment Translations

entertainment in Afrikaans is vermaak
entertainment in Danish is underholdning
entertainment in Dutch is aardigheid, pretje, amusement
entertainment in French is divertissement, plaisanterie, entretien, amusement
entertainment in German is Unterhaltung
entertainment in Italian is spasso, conversazione, divertimento
entertainment in Norwegian is representasjon, forlystelse, underholdning

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