entretainment

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A form of entertainment — 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.

Scrabble 15

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nounentretainment (plural not attested)
  1. archaicno pluralArchaic form of entertainment.
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    […] which I thought my duty with as much speed as possibly I could to giue you notice of, that you might accordingly resolue for their entretainment which I hope will be very much to their (as I am sure it wilbe to my Lords) content, and the honour of our Vniuersity with which and my many thanks for your most loving entretainment of mee, […]

    1615, William Boswell quoted in The Eagle, Volume XIX, page #538

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APA

entretainment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entretainment

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“entretainment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entretainment. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “entretainment,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entretainment.

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