Entertaiment

Something affording pleasure, diversion, or amusement: Solving the crossword is an entertainment for many people.

An agreeable occupation for the mind; a diverting adventure, picaresque, or comic novel: Shakespeare was low-brow entertainment in his day.

The capacity of familiar forms to entertain across different media has ensured the continuity and longevity of certain themes, images, and structures in culture. A famous example is the story of Scheherazade, a tale from Persian professional storytelling tradition that has been turned into an orchestral work by Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel, and Szymanowski; a film by Pasolini; and an innovative video game by Hideo Kojima.

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