Entertaiment

Entertaiment

Entertaiment has grown into a major industry providing livelihoods to many. It is a cultural activity which keeps people engaged, amused, diverted and emotionally attached to their surroundings. It is a storehouse of national values and reflects prevailing narrative traditions and moralism.

The word entertainment derived from Medieval Latin intertenere, with the prefix inter meaning “inside,” and the suffix tenere meaning to hold. Click on the buttons below to find colloquial expressions of this word. These examples are automatically generated from corpora and may contain errors. They do not represent the opinions of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or licensors.