Collocations That Use the Word “Entertaiment”

The clown at your kid’s birthday party, a Broadway show, stadium rock concert, your friends fighting over the last potato chip — all of these are forms of entertaiment. Derived from the French word for “entertain,” entertainment has to do with keeping people amused and distracted, often with a performance. It can be a sort of art, but it’s mostly about the effects that are created on the brain such as seratonin and dopamine.

These examples are programmatically selected from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word ‘entertainment.’ View other collocations using the buttons below. 2014 Merriam-Webster, Inc.