(n.) The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Admission into service; service.
(n.) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
Example Sentences:
(1) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(2) But as an entertaining family experience, it ticks almost every box.
(3) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(4) It’s not like there’s a simple answer.” Vassilopoulos said: “The media is all about entertainment.” “I don’t think they sell too many papers or get too many advertisements because of their coverage of income inequality,” said Calvert.
(5) Hull have Arsenal at home next and will entertain Manchester United on the final day of the season.
(6) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(7) Cerebrocortical necrosis appears to be unusual in goats, compared to cattle and sheep, but it should be entertained in the differential diagnosis of caprine nervous diseases.
(8) It was becoming entertaining too, a match that was swift and direct, the ball moved rapidly and with a sense of urgency.
(9) There is also a continued blurring of the lines between games and other entertainment media.
(10) There is a simple solution, formulated by English PEN, the Manifesto Club and the Earl of Clancarty, who raised the matter in the Lords earlier this year: remove short-term visits by non-EU artists from the PBS and expand the entertainer route, letting paid and unpaid artists qualify.
(11) Allardyce told an entertaining story about seeing José Mourinho punch the air at a Soccer Aid match when Chelsea’s manager realised he had convinced Fàbregas to sign for the club.
(12) Although there are no pathognomonic symptoms, signs, or radiological appearances of intracranial tuberculomas, a high index of suspicion should always be entertained during the investigation of non-European immigrants.
(13) Undeterred, Levin launched TMZ.com modestly in December 2005 as "a Hollywood and entertainment-centric news site".
(14) There would never be a meeting in a darkened room where a winner was chosen just to fit an audience demographic or to create more entertaining telly.
(15) 7 MyVoucherCodes Works on: iPhone and Android Cost: Free The app from the website of the same name, MyVoucherCodes uses GPS to send you the best money-off deals for eating out, shopping, health and beauty, travel, entertainment etc, wherever you are.
(16) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(17) Reality television molded Trump into the ratings and polls-obsessed performer that we know today, and created a new generation of Americans ready to be entertained by him.
(18) Those people do not have the option of finding other means of entertainment.
(19) The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
(20) It is now apparent that a large amount of confidential Sony Pictures Entertainment data has been stolen by the cyberattackers, including personnel information and business documents,” it said.
Vaudeville
Definition:
(n.) A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
(n.) A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs.
Example Sentences:
(1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(2) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
(3) | Lucia Graves Read more It was an attempt to resurrect the long-dead genre of vaudeville, only replacing acrobats with Rick Santorum and tenors with veterans.
(4) "Vaudeville distribution allows me to recoup my costs yet I would prefer being corporately presented."
(5) Throughout history, dwarves had been entertainers, often part of a circus or vaudeville show.
(6) Tyne Daly stars in Master Class at the Vaudeville theatre from 21 January to 28 April 2012 Guardian Extra members can get a top price ticket to A Round Heeled Woman for £35.
(7) Of all Jonathan's West End appearances, the one that stands out is an Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville in 1988 starring Michael Gambon, Jonathan Pryce and Greta Scacchi.
(8) Vaudeville , London WC2 (0844-412 9675), 26 November to 17 January.
(9) "I felt like we were doing a vaudeville act - I mean, it's a sight-gag, I'm six-two, he's about five-two, so there's this immediate visual thing, you've almost won the game before a single pitch is thrown."
(10) Just a few days ago, I was on the stage of the Harvey in Brooklyn, a beaten-up vaudeville hall like the Bouffes, where Sam Mendes is about to launch his globe-spanning Bridge Project with a production of The Cherry Orchard, one of the plays with which Peter opened the Harvey in the 1980s.
(11) Both as a vaudeville show and a political rally, Trump’s event was lacking.
(12) Visual art Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville The late Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) has not had a major show in the UK in 30 years.
(13) Each week I took lessons from the theatre conductor or someone he recommended_ I had great ambitions to be a concert artist, or, failing that, to use it in a vaudeville act."
(14) Located on the east side, this classic spot feels like it's an old live theatre, with a dose of vaudeville sparkle.
(15) The cinema was built in 1929 as a vaudeville theatre, and between the 50s and 70s was used to screen erotic films and grindhouse fare, latterly with nude dancers accompanying the screenings.
(16) Still, last autumn G4S reckoned it had retired from vaudeville and dispatched a smart new PR team around London to tell critics all about its newfound professionalism.
(17) That play also opened at the Donmar before transferring to the Vaudeville theatre.
(18) He remained haunted by his father's remark about his literary debut: "It is not even drama - it is vaudeville."
(19) Several rightwing politicians accused Hollande of carrying out a love-life "vaudeville".
(20) The Grammy for best song that year, for instance, was won not by the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations or the Four Tops’ Reach Out I’ll Be There but by the New Vaudeville Band’s jaunty jazz age pastiche Winchester Cathedral.