What Is Entertaiment?

Entertaiment is all around us-the clown at your kid’s birthday party, the Broadway show, the stadium rock concert, friends fighting over the last potato chip-and it’s changing as fast as our culture. From the Old French entretenir, meaning’support or hold together’, entertainment started out as a form of hospitality, and now it’s almost synonymous with amusement and distraction. Click the buttons below to find more examples of entertaiment in context, or search for a collocation using the box above. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word ‘entertainment.’ They do not represent the opinions of Merriam-Webster or its editors.