Entertaiment is a broad category of amusement, usually involving a performance. The clown at a child’s birthday party, a Broadway show, a stadium rock concert–all of these are forms of entertainment. We also use the word to describe our daily lives and activities, like watching TV or eating potato chips with friends. These example sentences were automatically generated from corpora and may not reflect the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

See also: collocations.