amusement

See also: Amüsement

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French amusement, from amuse +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmjuzmənt/

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• Hyphenation: a‧muse‧ment

Noun

amusement (countable and uncountable, plural amusements)

1. (uncountable) Entertainment
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 234a.

     This is some form of amusement you're talking about.

2. (countable) An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

     "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."

   • 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold-Bug:

     His chief amusements were gunning and fishing, or sauntering along the beach and through the myrtles, in quest of shells or entomological specimens--his collection of the latter might have been envied by a Swammerdamm.

   • 1919, L. Frank Baum, The Magic of Oz:

     The Cat was sour-tempered and grumpy, at first, but before they had journeyed far, the crystal creature had discovered a fine amusement. The long tails of the monkeys were constantly sticking through the bars of their cage, and when they did, the Glass Cat would slyly seize the tails in her paws and pull them.

Synonyms

• (an activity that is entertaining or amusing): See also Thesaurus:hobby

Translations

entertainment

• Breton: diduamant (br) m -où
• Bulgarian: забавление (bg) n (zabavlenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 娛樂 (zh), 娱乐 (zh) (yúlè)

• Czech: zábava (cs) f
• Danish: underholdning c
• Dutch: amusement (nl) n, vertier (nl) n
• Esperanto: amuzado
• Finnish: huvi (fi), huvitus (fi), huvittuneisuus, hilpeys (fi)
• French: amusement (fr) m
• German: Amüsement (de) n (obsolete), Entertainment (de) n (colloquial), Unterhaltung (de) f, Vergnügen (de) n
• Greek: διασκέδαση (el) f (diaskédasi), ψυχαγωγία (el) f (psychagogía), αναψυχή (el) f (anapsychí)
• Hungarian: szórakozás (hu)
• Indonesian: hiburan (id)
• Irish: áibhéar m
• Italian: divertimento (it) m
• Japanese: 娯楽 (ja) (ごらく, goraku), アミューズメント (amyūzumento), 遊び (ja) (asobi)
• Korean: 오락 (ko) (orak), 놀이 (ko) (nori)

• Kyrgyz: эрмек (ky) (ermek), оюн-зоок (ky) (oyun-zook)
• Latvian: izprieca f
• Macedonian: забава f (zabava), разонода f (razonoda)
• Malay: hiburan
• Maori: harakoa
• Mirandese: adbertimiento m
• Persian: شادی خوشحالی خوشی مسرت‎
• Polish: zabawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: divertimento (pt) m
• Romanian: divertisment (ro) n, distracție (ro) f, amuzament (ro) n
• Russian: развлече́ние (ru) n (razvlečénije), заба́ва (ru) f (zabáva)
• Slovene: zabava (sl) f, razvedrilo n
• Spanish: divertimiento (es) m, esparcimiento
• Tamil: கேளிக்கை (ta) (kēḷikkai)
• Telugu: వినోదం (te) (vinōdaṃ)
• Thai: มหรสพ (th) (má-hɔ̌ɔ-rá-sòp)
• Turkish: eğlence (tr)
• Vietnamese: sự hài hước (vi)

an activity that is entertaining or amusing

• Bulgarian: развлечение (bg) (razvlečenie)
• Esperanto: amuzaĵo
• Hebrew: שעשוע‎ m (sha'ashua), כיוף‎ m
• Italian: intrattenimento (it) m, festeggiamento (it) m
• Kyrgyz: көңүл ачуу (ky) (köñül açuu), эриккенди жазуу (ky) (erikkendi cazuu)
• Macedonian: забава f (zabava), разонода f (razonoda)
• Maori: harakoa

• Navajo: zhǫʼ
• Persian: سرگرمی‎ (fa)
• Portuguese: diversão (pt) f
• Russian: развлече́ние (ru) n (razvlečénije), заба́ва (ru) f (zabáva)
• Spanish: diversión (es) f
• Turkish: etkinlik (tr), uğraşı (tr), eğlenti (tr)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.myz.mɑ̃/

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Noun

amusement m (plural amusements)

1. amusement

Further reading

• “amusement” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).