entertainment
/ˌɛn.(t)ɚˈteɪn.mənt/ noun A2- 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.
Plural entertainments
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An Academician would say that the entertainments of the fashionable world are collections of flowers which attract inconstant butterflies, famished bees, and buzzing drones.
In this case, however, although the occasion of the entertainment was similar, the company was strikingly dissimilar.
A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish.
THE BEASTS of the forest gave a splendid entertainment at which the Monkey stood up and danced.
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