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Entertainment vs Repast - What's the difference?

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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

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.
  • *
  • a show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others
  • (obsolete) maintenance or support
  • *
  • Admission into service; service.
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  • (obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
  • *
  • The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

    repast

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A meal.
  • * Milton
  • From dance to sweet repast they turn.
  • * 1908 ,
  • When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast .
  • * 2010 ,
  • "'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast ."
  • (uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Go and get me some repast .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To supply food to; to feast.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Repast them with my blood.
  • (obsolete) To take food.
  • * Milton
  • He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.

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