amusement

English

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French amusement, from .

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /əˈmjuzmənt/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) 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.

Translations

entertainment

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

  Mandarin: 娛樂／娱乐 (yúlè), 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)
• Indonesian: hiburan (id)
• Italian: divertimento (it) m
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• Japanese: 娯楽 (ja) (ごらく, goraku), アミューズメント (amyūzumento), 遊び (ja) (asobi)
• Kyrgyz: эрмек (ky) (ermek), оюн-зоок (ky) (oyun-zook)
• Latvian: izprieca f
• Macedonian: забава f (zabava), разонода f (razonoda)
• Malay: hiburan
• 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
• Tamil: கேளிக்கை (ta) (kēḷikkai)
• Telugu: వినోదం (te) (vinōdaṁ)
• Turkish: eğlence (tr)
• Vietnamese: sự hài hước (vi)

an activity that is entertaining or amusing

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

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Noun

amusement m (plural amusements)

1. amusement

External links

• “amusement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.