Entertaiment

A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others. The experience of entertainment has become so strongly associated with leisure that one common understanding of the idea is fun and laughter, although many entertainments may have a serious purpose, as in the various styles of ceremony, party, religious festival, or satire for example.

Entertaiment

Entertainment is an English word derived from the Middle French entretenir. Its etymology is through inter- and tenir, a blending of the prefix inter- meaning “among” or “between” (from Latin inter-) with the suffix -ere from the root tenere, meaning to hold or stretch out (see TEN).

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