Entertaiment is the activity of entertaining or diverting people. It may be a form of amusement, pleasure, or enjoyment; or it may have more serious purpose—as in the various forms of ceremony, celebration, religious festival, or satire. It can be at a very personal scale, as with the selection of a private entertainment from an increasingly vast array of pre-recorded products; or it may be for an audience as large as a stadium. Click on a collocation below to see more examples.

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