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# entertainment

«entertainment» in Mova's school dictionary: **things that people enjoy watching or doing for fun, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (entertainment, entertainments; mostly uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Entertainment is things that people enjoy watching or doing for fun, like films, shows, music, games and sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entertainment/#m1)

2) Entertainment is the act of amusing people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entertainment/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, families choose entertainment for evenings and parties. In lessons about media, children learn the difference between entertainment, news and adverts. Phrases: «for entertainment», «the entertainment industry», «entertainment centre», «provide entertainment».

### examples

- The clown provided the entertainment at the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entertainment/#x1)
- What do you do for entertainment on rainy days? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entertainment/#x2)
- Television is a kind of entertainment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entertainment/#x3)
- The school fair had food, games and entertainment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entertainment/#x4)
- For entertainment, we played charades. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entertainment/#x5)
- The film was great entertainment for the whole family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entertainment/#x6)
- Some videos look like news but are just entertainment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entertainment/#x7)
- Every day was a festival; balls and entertainments followed one another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entertainment/#x8)

### note

Usually uncountable: «a lot of entertainment». From the verb «entertain» and adjective «entertaining». Watch out: online content made for entertainment is not always true. Not a number word.

### In the corpora

- [Gossip about a famous person's love life is entertainment, not real news, and much of it is guessing from photos.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/11/)
- [Product placement is when companies pay to show their products in films and shows; it is advertising hidden in entertainment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/18/)
- [Product placement is when companies pay for their products to appear in films or shows; it is advertising hidden in entertainment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «entertainment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entertainment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.