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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
Ike Barinholtz

Meaning of "entertainment" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ENTERTAINMENT

entertainment  [ˌɛntəˈteɪnmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENTERTAINMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Entertainment is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENTERTAINMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

entertainment

Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention. Although people's attention is held by different things, because individuals have different preferences in entertainment, most forms are recognisable and familiar. Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures, were supported in royal courts, developed into sophisticated forms and over time became available to all citizens. The process has been accelerated in modern times by an entertainment industry which records and sells entertainment products. Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale, ranging from an individual who chooses a private entertainment from a now enormous array of pre-recorded products; to a banquet adapted for two; to any size or type of party, with appropriate music and dance; to performances intended for thousands; and even for a global audience.

Definition of entertainment in the English dictionary

The definition of entertainment in the dictionary is the act or art of entertaining or state of being entertained. Other definition of entertainment is an act, production, etc, that entertains; diversion; amusement.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENTERTAINMENT


appertainment
ˌæpəˈteɪnmənt
arraignment
əˈreɪnmənt
ascertainment
ˌæsəˈteɪnmənt
attainment
əˈteɪnmənt
containment
kənˈteɪnmənt
detainment
dɪˈteɪnmənt
detrainment
diːˈtreɪnmənt
distrainment
dɪsˈtreɪnmənt
edutainment
ˌɛdjʊˈteɪnmənt
enchainment
ɪnˈtʃeɪnmənt
entrainement
ɪnˈtreɪnmənt
entrainment
ɪnˈtreɪnmənt
exertainment
ˌɛksəˈteɪnmənt
infotainment
ˌɪnfəʊˈteɪnmənt
obtainment
əbˈteɪnmənt
ordainment
ɔːˈdeɪnmənt
preordainment
ˌpriːɔːˈdeɪnmənt
regainment
rɪˈɡeɪnmənt
retainment
rɪˈteɪnmənt
sustainment
səˈsteɪnmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENTERTAINMENT

enterotoxin
enteroviral
enterovirus
enterprise
Enterprise Allowance Scheme
Enterprise Investment Scheme
enterprise zone
enterpriser
enterprising
enterprisingly
entertain
entertainer
entertaining
entertainingly
entertainment allowance
entertainment expenses
entertainment industry
entertainment tax
entertake
entertissued

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENTERTAINMENT

abandonment
adjournment
adornment
advertisement
alignment
assignment
built environment
cantonment
central government
consignment
Department of the Environment
e-government
enlightenment
environment
Federal Government
government
imprisonment
local government
national government
national unity government
open government

Synonyms and antonyms of entertainment in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ENTERTAINMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «entertainment» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of entertainment

Translation of «entertainment» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENTERTAINMENT

Find out the translation of entertainment to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of entertainment from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «entertainment» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

娱乐
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

diversión
570 millions of speakers

English

entertainment
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मनोरंजन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الترفيه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

развлечения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

entretenimento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিনোদন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

spectacle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hiburan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unterhaltung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

娯楽
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

연예
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

hiburan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vui chơi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொழுதுபோக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मनोरंजन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eğlence
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

divertimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozrywka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розваги
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

divertisment
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψυχαγωγία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Vermaak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

underhållning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

underholdning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of entertainment

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENTERTAINMENT»

The term «entertainment» is very widely used and occupies the 847 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENTERTAINMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «entertainment» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «entertainment» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about entertainment

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10 QUOTES WITH «ENTERTAINMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word entertainment.
1
Stephen Amell
Canada does a really a phenomenal job of producing music, actors, and entertainers. If you look at the number of people we have in our country relative to the number of people that are prominent in the entertainment industry, it's pretty impressive.
2
W. H. Auden
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
3
Ike Barinholtz
Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
4
Peter Bart
Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
5
Jodi Benson
I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.
6
George Berkeley
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
7
Aloe Blacc
What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.
8
Steven Bochco
The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.
9
David Boreanaz
I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.
10
Jack Brickhouse
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENTERTAINMENT»

Discover the use of entertainment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to entertainment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis
The eighth edition of Entertainment Industry Economics differs from its predecessors by inclusion of a new section on the legal aspects and limitations common to all such 'experience' industries, reference to the emerging field of the ...
Harold L. Vogel, 2010
2
Sports and Entertainment Marketing
Each marketing function is incorporated throughout the text and is highlighted with an icon to indicate how it is used in the marketing process.
Ken Kaser, Dotty Oelkers, 2007
3
Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries
Updates and revises the classic casebook for Entertainment Law
Donald E. Biederman, 2007
4
Branded Entertainment: Product Placement & Brand Strategy in ...
" Patrick Quinn, PQ Media Branded Entertainment explains how product placement, a long-time phenomenon in films, has gone beyond this to now embrace all media.
Jean-Marc Lehu, 2007
5
Digital Storytelling: A creator's guide to interactive ...
Whether you're a writer, producer, director, project manager, or designer, 'Digital Storytelling' gives you all you need to develop a successful interactive project.
Carolyn Handler Miller, 2008
6
Entertainment Law
The edited judicial decisions, showing court interpretation, make this book unlike any other currently on the market.
Leah Edwards, 2003
7
Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire
This collection fills such a need by uniting a series of general introductions on each of these topics for the non-specialist.
David Stone Potter, D. J. Mattingly, 1999
8
Entertainment-Education: A Communication Strategy for Social ...
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Arvind Singhal, Everett M. Rogers, 1999
9
Entertainment
Readers will learn about daily life in the entertainment industry, average salaries, and educational requirements and steps to securing one of these positions.
Marcia Amidon Lüsted, 2011
10
Only Entertainment
This new edition of Dyer's text on entertainment and the pleasures of popular culture features a revised introduction and five new chapters on topics from serial killer movies to Elizabeth Taylor.
Department of Film Studies Richard Dyer, Richard Dyer, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENTERTAINMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term entertainment is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Alibaba's Digital Entertainment President Detained
“We understand that Patrick Liu with our digital entertainment unit has been detained by the authorities,” an Alibaba spokesman said in a ... «Variety, Jul 15»
2
Paramount Teams With Exhibitors to Shorten Home Entertainment
The studio is teaming up with AMC Theatres and Cineplex Entertainment on an unorthodox rollout of two low-budget horror films, “Paranormal ... «Variety, Jul 15»
3
DC Entertainment debuts new Batman: The Animated Series …
Find out in EW's exclusive preview of DC Entertainment's Batman: The Animated Series commercial. Starring Kevin Smith and animation ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jul 15»
4
Working For The Weekend: Entertainment Best Bets
Enjoy live entertainment before and after the run. All participants will receive a custom designed ILLUMINIGHT 5K t-shirt along with glow bling ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
5
Sony Online Entertainment's former CEO just declared war on the …
The Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) and Microsoft Xbox Live Christmas service outage last year left many people red faced and angry, but few ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
6
UPTOWN ENTERTAINMENT
The future is set for the Tower Theater with a deal announced Wednesday that will turn it into a live music venue with a chance for bringing ... «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»
7
JYP Entertainment Finalizes Lineup For New Girl Group Twice
JYP Entertainment's upcoming girl group Twice was revealed on Tuesday. The members were chosen from the survival television show ... «KpopStarz, Jul 15»
8
Married at First Sight: Exploitation or Entertainment?
The term “ground-breaking social experiment” is one of the most bankrupt in television. Big Brother genuinely was that, back at the turn of the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
9
MWWPR Partners With Caesars Entertainment To Launch Harrah's …
NEW YORK, July 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Caesars Entertainment, the world's largest casino entertainment company, has hired MWWPR for public relations ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
10
Musicians Behind Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' Sue Sony …
Art · Books · Education · Entertainment ... Musicians Behind Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' Sue Sony Entertainment, Claiming Wage Theft. «International Business Times, Jul 15»

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