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Entertaiment is a multifaceted universe that encompasses all forms of art and entertainment, from reading gripping mysteries to solving crossword puzzles to engaging in video games that require strategic thinking. Creative entertainment often seeks to push the boundaries of what has been done before, aiming to evoke complex emotions that challenge and enrich the mind, such as wonder, fear, joy, and contemplation.
The word entertain comes from the Medieval Latin intertenere, and derives ultimately from the Indo-European root ten. Click on the buttons below to find colloquial uses of the word. These examples are programmatically gathered from corpora and other sources on the web. They do not represent the views of Merriam-Webster or its editors.