Entertainment vs Avocation - What's the difference?
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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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(obsolete) A calling away; a diversion.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 204:
A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit.
* 1934 , Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
*:But yield who will to their separation,
*:My object in living is to unite
*:My avocation and my vocation
*:As my two eyes make one in sight.
That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
Entertainment is a related term of avocation.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between entertainment and avocation
is that entertainment is (obsolete) payment of soldiers or servants; wages while avocation is (obsolete) a calling away; a diversion.As nouns the difference between entertainment and avocation
is that 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 while avocation is (obsolete) a calling away; a diversion.entertainment
English
(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.
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English
(wikipedia avocation)Noun
(en noun)- But though she could neither sleep nor rest in her bed, yet, having no avocation from it, she was found there by her father at his return from Allworthy's, which was not till past ten o'clock in the morning.