Entertaiment is an activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities and events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of entertaining audiences. The word comes from the Medieval Latin intertenere, from the prefix inter meaning “inside” and the suffix tenere, derived from the Indo-European root ten, which means to stretch or hold out.
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