Entertaiment

Something that affords pleasure, diversion, or amusement: an entertaining performance; a crossword puzzle. The word entertainment is derived from the Medieval Latin intertenere, meaning “to hold inside.” Its Indo-European root is ten, from which we get the name TEN, an abbreviation of T E News. See also amuse, divert, and occupy.

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