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Entertainment vs. Education

Entertainment and Education Definitions

Entertainment

The act of entertaining.

Education

The act or process of educating or being educated.

Entertainment

The art or field of entertaining.

Education

The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.

Entertainment

Something that amuses, pleases, or diverts, especially a performance or show.

Education

A program of instruction of a specified kind or level
Driver education.
A college education.
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Entertainment

The pleasure afforded by being entertained; amusement
The comedian performed for our entertainment.

Education

The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.

Entertainment

(Archaic) Maintenance; support.

Education

An instructive or enlightening experience
Her work in an animal shelter was a real education.

Entertainment

(Obsolete) Employment.

Education

(uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
Good education is essential for a well-run society.
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Entertainment

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.

Education

(countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
He has had a classical education.
The educations our children receive depend on their economic status.

Entertainment

A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.

Education

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.
To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge.

Entertainment

(obsolete) Maintenance or support.

Education

The activities of educating or instructing or teaching; activities that impart knowledge or skill;
He received no formal education
Our instruction was carefully programmed
Good teaching is seldom rewarded
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Entertainment

(obsolete) Admission into service; service.

Education

Knowledge acquired by learning and instruction;
It was clear that he had a very broad education

Entertainment

(obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

Education

The gradual process of acquiring knowledge;
Education is a preparation for life
A girl's education was less important than a boy's

Entertainment

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

Education

The profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)

Entertainment

The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.
The entertainment of Christ by faith.
The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the gospel.

Education

The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior);
A woman of breeding and refinement

Entertainment

That which entertains, or with which one is entertained;
Theatrical entertainments conducted with greater elegance and refinement.

Education

The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979

Entertainment

Admission into service; service.
Some band of strangers in the adversary's entertainment.

Entertainment

Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

Entertainment

A diversion that holds the attention

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