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[ noun ] an activity that entertains
Synonyms Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom , and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large_numbers from the simple-minded , one minute shows . When he came to the movies - more_or_less by accident - they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes . But in_general the European efforts to make an art of the entertainment had ignored the slowly emerging language of the film itself . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)As they waited for supper they sat by the fire , glasses in_hand , while Byron philosophized as much for his own entertainment as hers . (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)he liked children , in a loathsome kind of way ; the two youngest in our family always had to be brought_in and put_through tricks for his entertainment . Related terms diversion show extravaganza edutainment beguilement militainment amuse |
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