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The Daily Entertaining

A clown at a birthday party, a Broadway show, your friends fighting over the last potato chip—each of these is entertainment. The word itself is derived from the Latin inter-tenere, which means to hold inside. Originally, it was associated with hospitality—entertaining guests was about keeping them happy. It then came to mean anything affording pleasure, diversion, or amusement, especially a performance of some kind.

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