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Definition of Entertainment

Entertainment

  1. The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.
  2. 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.
  3. Admission into service; service.
  4. Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

Entertainment Quotations

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

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

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa
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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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