Education vs Entertainment - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
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, title= (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.
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, title= An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.
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a show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others
(obsolete) maintenance or support
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Admission into service; service.
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(obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
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As nouns the difference between education and entertainment
is that education is the process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment while entertainment is an activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.education
English
Alternative forms
* (generally jocular) educashun, educamationNoun
(en noun)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
Derived terms
* all-round education * distance education * educational * educationist * general education * liberal education * mass education * primary education * secondary education * tertiary education * higher education * further education * edjamacationSee also
* training * schoolingAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsentertainment
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(wikipedia entertainment)Alternative forms
* entretainment (chiefly archaic)Noun
(en noun)- The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.