Entertainment vs Repast - What's the difference?
entertainment | repast | Synonyms |
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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(countable) A meal.
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(uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To supply food to; to feast.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To take food.
* Milton
Entertainment is a synonym of repast.
As nouns the difference between entertainment and repast
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 repast is (countable) a meal.As a verb repast is
(obsolete|transitive) to supply food to; to feast.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
Noun
- From dance to sweet repast they turn.
- When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast .
- "'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast ."
- Go and get me some repast .
Verb
(en verb)- Repast them with my blood.
- He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.