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Entertainment vs. Entertain — What's the Difference?

Entertainment vs. Entertain — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Entertainment and Entertain

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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.

Entertain

Provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment
A tremendous game that thoroughly entertained the crowd

Entertainment

The act of entertaining.

Entertain

Give attention or consideration to (an idea or feeling)
Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in relations

Entertainment

The art or field of entertaining.
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Entertain

To hold the attention of (someone) with something amusing or diverting.

Entertainment

Something that amuses, pleases, or diverts, especially a performance or show.

Entertain

To extend hospitality toward
Entertain friends at dinner.

Entertainment

The pleasure afforded by being entertained; amusement
The comedian performed for our entertainment.

Entertain

To consider; contemplate
Entertain an idea.

Entertainment

(Archaic) Maintenance; support.

Entertain

To hold in mind; harbor
Entertained few illusions.

Entertainment

(Obsolete) Employment.

Entertain

(Archaic) To continue with; maintain.

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.

Entertain

(Obsolete) To employ; hire.

Entertainment

A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.

Entertain

(Obsolete) To give admittance to; receive.

Entertainment

(obsolete) Maintenance or support.

Entertain

To show hospitality to guests.

Entertainment

(obsolete) Admission into service; service.

Entertain

To provide entertainment.

Entertainment

(obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

Entertain

(transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
To entertain friends with lively conversation
The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.

Entertainment

(obsolete) Reception; (provision of) food to guests or travellers.

Entertain

To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
They enjoy entertaining a lot.

Entertainment

The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.
The entertainment of Christ by faith.
The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the gospel.

Entertain

(transitive) To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.
To entertain a proposal

Entertainment

That which entertains, or with which one is entertained;
Theatrical entertainments conducted with greater elegance and refinement.

Entertain

(obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.

Entertainment

Admission into service; service.
Some band of strangers in the adversary's entertainment.

Entertain

(obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.

Entertainment

Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

Entertain

(obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.

Entertainment

A diversion that holds the attention

Entertain

(obsolete) Entertainment; pleasure.

Entertain

(obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.

Entertain

To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.

Entertain

To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained unawares.

Entertain

To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.
The weary time she can not entertain.

Entertain

To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.
I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.
A rumor gained ground, - and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.

Entertain

To meet or encounter, as an enemy.

Entertain

To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.

Entertain

To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
To baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services institutions of the holy Jesus.

Entertain

To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.

Entertain

Entertainment.

Entertain

Provide entertainment for

Entertain

Take into consideration, have in view;
He entertained the notion of moving to South America

Entertain

Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings);
Bear a grudge
Entertain interesting notions
Harbor a resentment

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