Entertaiment

A clown at a birthday party, a Broadway show, a stadium rock concert, your friends fighting over the last potato chip–all of these are forms of entertainment. The word entertainment comes from the Latin intertenere, which means “to hold inside.” The prefix inter refers to something within, and the suffix -taiment is related to the Latin root ten, which means to stretch or enlarge. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online sources, and may not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Click on a collocation to see more examples.
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