amusement
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Old French muser Old French amuser Middle French amuser Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Middle French -ment Middle French amusementbor. English amusement Borrowed from Middle French amusement, from amuser + -ment. Morphologically amuse + -ment.
- borrowed from amusement
Definitions
Entertainment.
- To my great amusement, the dog kept on chasing its tail and yelped when it bit it.
- This is some form of amusement you're talking about.
An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.
- "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
- His chief amusements were gunning and fishing, or sauntering along the beach and through the myrtles, in quest of shells or entomological specimens--his collection of the latter might have been envied by a Swammerdamm.
The neighborhood
- synonymrecreation
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at amusement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at amusement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at amusement
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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