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Entertaiment is an activity that holds the attention and interest of people or gives pleasure and delight. It may be an idea or task, but it is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of entertaining and holding people’s attention. The word derives from the Latin intertenere, with the prefix inter meaning “inside,” and the suffix tenere, from the Indo-European root ten, which means to stretch. These examples are automatically compiled from corpora and other sources on the web and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors.