Entertaiment is a fun and popular word that has become closely associated with leisure. Its roots, in the Medieval Latin intertenere (with the prefix inter meaning “inside” and the suffix tenere mean “to hold inside”), can be traced to the Indo-European root ten, which means to stretch, or more specifically, to extend a thing. Perhaps that explains why entertainment, as a concept and a business, has shown itself to be so flexible and malleable, encompassing a seemingly infinite number of genres.

These example sentences are selected automatically from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word ‘entertainment.’

These examples may be sensitive to regional variations in tone.