entertainment🔊

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.

(obsolete) Maintenance or support.

(obsolete) An admission into service; a service.

(obsolete) The payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

(obsolete) A reception; a (provision of) food to guests or travellers.