Entertainment

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Admission into service; service.

II. Entertainment ·noun Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

III. Entertainment ·noun The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.

IV. Entertainment ·noun That which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: (a) Hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) That which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation, ·etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement.