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An activity that holds the interest or attention of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It may be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping audiences entertained.

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The word entertainment is derived from the medieval Latin intertenere, from the prefix inter meaning “inside” and the suffix tenere, from the Indo-European root ten, which means to hold.