OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2853

entertainment

/ˌɛn.təˈteɪn.mənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
entretención • entretenimiento • trebejo
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.
Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots…
The delinquents are generally the adventurous type, who have little use for reading and other non-active entertainment.