Articles About Entertaiment

Articles About Entertaiment

From the Fall 2011 issue of TEN: Transformational Entertainment News.
“Entertainment” is the most widely used word in English to describe activities designed specifically to hold attention and interest, or give pleasure and delight. It is a compound of Middle English entretenement, from the Medieval Latin inter- (inside) and tenere, (to hold). For more on the origin of the word, see the etymology page.

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