Entertaiment

The clown at your kid’s birthday party, a Broadway show, the stadium rock concert and your friends fighting over the last potato chip—all are forms of entertainment. But in a more general sense, entertainment means amusement or distraction, and it comes from the Medieval Latin word intertenere, which has the prefix inter meaning “inside” and the suffix tenere meaning to hold inside.

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