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/ˌɛn.təˈteɪn.mənt/ · noun
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..
The delinquents are generally the adventurous type, who have little use for reading and other non-active entertainment.
Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
"This," said the matronly presence, ushering me into a low room on the right, "is where the Travellers sit by the fire, and cook what bits of suppers they buy with their fourpences." "O! Then they have no Entertainment?" said I. For the inscription over the outer door was still running in my head, and I was mentally repeating, in a kind of tune, "Lodging, entertainment, and fourpence each."
He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment.
The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.
I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold Can in this desert place buy entertainment, Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed.
Tho’ they cut [the beef] into long Pieces, (like Ropes) with the Hide; and dress’d, and eat it half-roasted according to their Custom, and gave it me in the same Manner; yet I thought this contemptible Food, and what a Beggar in England would not have touch’d, the most delicious Entertainment I ever met with.
Use entertainment when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Entertainment means 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..
Common synonyms include amusement.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The delinquents are generally the adventurous type, who have little use for reading and other non-active entertainment.
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