Word Finder - entertainment

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An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.

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A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.

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Maintenance or support.

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Admission into service; service.

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Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

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Reception; (provision of) food to guests or travellers.

In his day, Shakespeare was low-brow entertainment for the common class.

It is a fun restaurant with great food and entertainment.

And further, we must always remember that entertainment and aesthetic effect were at most subsidiary objects.

Numerous institutions contribute to the entertainment of visitors.

This latter building, standing on high ground at Sydenham, and visible from far over the metropolis, is devoted not only to concerts, but to general entertainment, and the extensive grounds give accommodation for a variety of sports and amusements.

You're not my entertainment committee, you know.

In the Old Town still remain a few specimens of eighteenth century architecture, including several old-fashioned post-houses, which used to furnish entertainment for travellers starting for the Middle West by way of the old Cumberland Road beginning at Fort Cumberland, and from Baltimore to Fort Cumberland by a much older turnpike.

The entertainment was prepared by Sir Francis Bacon at a cost of about X2000.

Among Sir Isaac's writings is Rex platonicus, a description of the entertainment of James I.

The fields and places of entertainment in Islington were favourite places of resort for the citizens of London in the 17th century and later; the modern Ball's Pond Road recalls the sport of duck-hunting practised here and on other ponds in the parish, and the popularity of the place was increased by the discovery of chalybeate wells.

Xander returned to his condo and his night's entertainment.

In this world, humans have grown fat, stopped walking, and fill their days with non-stop entertainment and food.

All of this entertainment and outdoor activity can make one feel rather amorous.

The courtroom was half filled, mostly with pensioners who looked to the system for their daily entertainment.

His reception and entertainment of Odysseus, who when cast by a storm on the shore of the island was relieved by the king's daughter, Nausicaa, is described in the Odyssey (vi.-xiii.).

It was a frequent resort of Pepys, who mentions its houses of entertainment and the wrestling and other pastimes carried on, also that it furnished a refuge for many of those whose houses were destroyed in the fire of London in 1666.

Now she was supposed to be an entertainment committee to a sophisticated fat cat.

Patience wasn't his strong suit and Mrs. Lincoln and jazz music somehow weren't sufficient evening entertainment.

Was he also instructed to provide her with entertainment?

Sure, and I was nothing but a temporary diversion - a local hick to provide you with entertainment.

Maybe he was serious about penciling her in for his Tuesday night entertainment.

Of practice quot the company is entertainment DVD home.

The in-flight entertainment was provided by Martyn Payne from The Barnabas Trust.

Local Guide and Scout groups will also be taking to the stage and there will be musical entertainment from the Carlton Brass Band.

It's not quite the great white hope for iPod in-car entertainment that I thought it would be.

Our show is renowned for being the best live adult entertainment in the south coast.

We also have a wide range of evening entertainment for you to enjoy.

Latest inflight entertainment Upgrade to Star Class Premier Do you fancy even more legroom, more personal space and complimentary drinks throughout the flight?

But we had a little something up our sleeves to provide a bit of night-time entertainment.

In addition to the top class competition, the show offers a majestic line-up of displays and entertainment at this year's equestrian spectacular.

Come and celebrate this colorful fiesta diabolically recreated through stories in a uniquely anarchic entertainment.

Pop in the Park is a one day pop extravaganza featuring great artists, brilliant DJs and wild entertainment including fire-eaters and acrobats.

Like all our long-haul flights, passengers will get personal inflight entertainment, food, a complimentary newspaper and a free bar service.

We have entertainment on Wed / Thurs / Sat nights and are situated next to playing fields and a 9-hole golf course.

On the last Wednesday of term we presented a varied program of entertainment to a packed hall.

A sumptuous gaming room and private harem caters for evening entertainment.

The eveningâs entertainment will include a harpist during the drinks reception followed by a string quartet playing throughout the dinner.

Harvey reopened are made pursuant focused on building entertainment inc.

Twin 7-inch LCD color screens have been mounted into the backs of the front headrests with a DVD player providing the entertainment.

Multiple audio channels and noise-reducing headsets complete the entertainment offerings.

A mini hi-fi with cd player is provided for those who prefer musical entertainment.

Evening dinner offsite at various ' watering holes ' Entertainment evening - 10 pin bowling or cinema followed by course dinner.

The lottery must be incidental to the exempt entertainment, i.e. it must not be the only or the only substantial inducement to attend.

This unrelenting, self-referential entertainment left a large part of mankind chronically inebriated and fundamentally uneducable.

Our entertainment here was in so elegant a style, and reminded my fellow-traveller so much of England, that he became quite joyous.

Enjoy yourself to the full in a dazzling kaleidoscope of sports and entertainment.

Will there be enough legroom in the New Entertainment Venue?

Wonderful Viennese music combined with an exuberant and hilarious new libretto sung in English, all adds up to unmissable entertainment!

Entertainment Regular entertainment including limbo, steel bands, live combos and cultural shows.

David Morley was killed, brutally, for the entertainment of a barely literate fourteen year old girl, the daughter of heroin addicts.