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Entertainment vs Regale - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between entertainment and regale

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 regale is a feast, meal.

As a verb regale is

to please or entertain (someone).

entertainment

English

(wikipedia 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.

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    regale

    English

    Etymology

    From (etyl) . Influenced in Old French by se rigoler "amuse oneself, rejoice," of unknown origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A feast, meal.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To please or entertain (someone).
  • * 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
    • You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel (Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly (Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.
  • To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink.
  • (obsolete) To feast ((on), (with) something).
  • *1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury , V:
  • *:she hardly lets a Week pass without making the Lady Abbess and her Nuns a Visit, to regale with a Cup of burnt Brandy.
  • (figurative) To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh.
    • to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear