What Is Entertaiment?
The clown at a birthday party, the Broadway show, your friends fighting over the last potato chip—all of these are forms of entertainment. Entertaiment has become so closely associated with leisure that it isn’t uncommon for what appears to be entertainment to actually serve a purpose of societal control, social hierarchy, or highbrow growth. These examples are selected automatically from various online sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘entertainment.’ Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors.