Entertaiment Articles

The clown at your child’s birthday party, a Broadway show, or your friends fighting over the last potato chip—these and many other events are forms of entertainment. From Middle French entretenir, from the Latin intertenere (“to hold inside”), we think of entertainment as amusement or distraction. But the word has a longer history of association with hospitality and the cultivation of the mind. Then again, some entertainment can be edifying. Click the collocations below to see examples.

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