A broad, encompassing term that includes everything from movies and music to a good meal. It also encompasses many forms of philanthropy.
The word entertain is derived from the Latin intertenere, a compound of the prefix inter meaning “inside” and the verb tenere, derived from the Indo-European root ten, which means to stretch. This reflects the nature of entertainment, which takes many different forms and often changes in meaning from one generation to the next.
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