Meaning

• 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.

• Maintenance or support.

• Admission into service; service.

• Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

• Reception; (provision of) food to guests or travellers.