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.
(obsolete) An admission into service; a service.
(obsolete) The payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
(obsolete) A reception; a (provision of) food to guests or travellers.