Entertaiment is a collection of cultural phenomena that demonstrate the capacity of many familiar forms to transcend and reinterpret themselves across different media. It includes movies, television shows, books, music, dance, live performance, branded entertainment, and new media. This collection was programmatically compiled from corpora and other sources on the Web and does not represent the views of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Click on a collocation to see more examples from the collection.
The word “entertainment” is derived from the Middle Latin intertenere, from the prefix inter meaning “inside” and the suffix tenere, from the Indo-European root ten, which means to hold or stretch.