amusement

See also: Amüsement

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French amusement, from amuser +‎ -ment.

Morphologically amuse +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmjuzmənt/

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• Hyphenation: a‧muse‧ment

Noun

amusement (countable and uncountable, plural amusements)

1. (uncountable) Entertainment.

   To my great amusement, the dog kept on chasing its tail and yelped when it bit it.

   • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 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.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby

   • 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.

Derived terms

• amusement arcade
• amusement park
• amusement ride

 

Translations

entertainment

• Arabic: تَسْلِيَة f (tasliya)
• Armenian: զվարճություն (hy) (zvarčutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: əyləncə (az)
• Belarusian: заба́ва f (zabáva)
• Bengali: আমোদ (bn) (amōd)
• Breton: diduamant (br) m
• Bulgarian: забавле́ние (bg) n (zabavlénie), развлече́ние (bg) n (razvlečénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 娛樂／娱乐 (zh) (yúlè)

• Czech: zábava (cs) f
• Danish: underholdning c, tidsfordriv, adspredelse c, beskæftigelse c
• Dutch: amusement (nl) n, vertier (nl) n
• Esperanto: amuzado
• Faroese: stuttleiki, ítriv, dagdvølja
• Finnish: huvi (fi), huvitus (fi), huvittuneisuus (fi), hilpeys (fi)
• French: amusement (fr) m
• Georgian: გასართობი (gasartobi)
• 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)
• Hebrew: בִּדּוּר (he) m (bidúr)
• Hindi: मनोरंजन (hi) m (manorañjan)
• Hungarian: szórakozás (hu)
• Icelandic: afþreying (is) f
• 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) (あそび, asobi)
• Kazakh: ойын-сауық (oiyn-sauyq), ермек (ermek)
• Korean: 오락(娛樂) (ko) (orak), 놀이 (ko) (nori)
• Kyrgyz: эрмек (ky) (ermek), оюн-зоок (ky) (oyun-zook)
• Latin: oblectāmen n, oblectāmentum n
• Latvian: izprieca f
• Macedonian: забава f (zabava), разонода f (razonoda)
• Malay: hiburan (ms)
• Malayalam: വിനോദം (ml) (vinōdaṁ), രസം (ml) (rasaṁ)
• Maori: harakoa
• Mirandese: adbertimiento m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: underholdning m or f, tidsfordriv, tidtrøyte (no), fritidsbeskjeftigelse, atspredelse

  Nynorsk: underhaldning, tidsfordriv, tidtrøyte

• Ottoman Turkish: جنبش (cümbüş), كیف (keyf)
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: за̑бава f

  Roman: zȃbava (sh) f

• Slovak: zábava f
• Slovene: zabȃva (sl) f, razvedrilo n
• Spanish: divertimiento (es) m, esparcimiento m
• Swedish: underhållning (sv) c, förströelse (sv) c, avkoppling (sv) c
• Tamil: கேளிக்கை (ta) (kēḷikkai)
• Telugu: వినోదం (te) (vinōdaṁ)
• Thai: มหรสพ (th) (má-hɔ̌ɔ-rá-sòp)
• Turkish: eğlence (tr)
• Ukrainian: розва́га (uk) f (rozváha), заба́ва f (zabáva)
• Vietnamese: sự hài hước (vi)
• Volapük: muad (vo)

an activity that is entertaining or amusing

• Bulgarian: развлече́ние (bg) n (razvlečénie)
• Esperanto: amuzaĵo
• Finnish: hupi (fi), hupailu, huvittelu (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: διατριβή f (diatribḗ)

• Hebrew: שַׁעֲשׁוּעַ m (sha'ashúa), כיוף m
• Italian: intrattenimento (it) m, festeggiamento (it) m
• Kyrgyz: көңүл ачуу (ky) (köŋül acuu), эриккенди жазуу (ky) (erikkendi jazuu)
• Latin: oblectāmen n, oblectāmentum n
• Macedonian: забава f (zabava), разонода f (razonoda)
• Malayalam: വിനോദം (ml) (vinōdaṁ)
• Maori: harakoa
• Navajo: zhǫʼ
• Persian: سرگرمی (fa) (sargarmi)
• Portuguese: diversão (pt) f
• Russian: развлече́ние (ru) n (razvlečénije), заба́ва (ru) f (zabáva)
• Spanish: diversión (es) f
• Turkish: etkinlik (tr), uğraşı (tr), eğlenti (tr)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French amusement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.my.zəˈmɛnt/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: amu‧se‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

amusement n (uncountable)

1. entertainment, amusement

Related terms

• amusant
• amuseren

French

Etymology

From amuser (“to amuse”) +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.myz.mɑ̃/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

amusement m (plural amusements)

1. amusement

Descendants

• → English: amusement
• → German: Amüsement

Further reading

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