Entertaiment is everything that excites and holds the attention of a person, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be anything from a sport to a movie to a joke. Some entertainment is even thought-provoking, like a scary movie, while others are just plain funny.
The word entertain comes from the Medieval Latin intertenere, meaning “to hold inside.” It is a compound of the prefix inter- and the suffix tenere, which derives from the Indo-European root ten, meaning to stretch or extend. The familiar forms of entertainment we see today have demonstrated the capacity to span a variety of media and to evolve into a new form with each remix.