Entertaiment is any activity that diverts, amuses, or delights people during their leisure time. People may create their own entertainment, such as when they spontaneously invent a game; participate actively in entertainment, such as when they play sports as a hobby; or consume entertainment passively, such as when they watch a movie.
The word entertain derives from the Middle French entente and the Latin intertenere, from the root tenere, meaning “to stretch out.” These example sentences are automatically generated programmatically from various online sources to show how the word entertain is used today. Click on the collocations to see more examples.