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Entertainment vs Kirmess - What's the difference?

entertainment | kirmess |

As nouns the difference between entertainment and kirmess

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 kirmess is an outdoor festival and fair, usually in Belgium or Holland.

entertainment

Alternative forms

* entretainment (chiefly archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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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  • The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

    kirmess

    English

    Alternative forms

    * kermesse * kermis

    Noun

    (es)
  • An outdoor festival and fair, usually in Belgium or Holland.
  • (US) An indoor entertainment and fair combined.
  • (Webster 1913)