Articles about Entertaiment
The word entertainment relates to activities that are amusing, pleasant, or diverting. It can be anything from a private amusement to a large-scale festival or performance. The word originated in Medieval Latin inter tenere, from the prefix inter meaning “inside” and the suffix tenere, from the Indo-European root ten, meaning to stretch or extend.
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