Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchamusement, fromamuser +‎-ment.

Morphologicallyamuse +‎-ment

• IPA^(key):/əˈmjuzmənt/

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• Hyphenation:a‧muse‧ment

amusement (countable anduncountable,pluralamusements)

1. (uncountable)Entertainment.

   To my greatamusement, the dog kept on chasing its tail and yelped when it bit it.

   • 2005,Plato, translated by Lesley Brown,Sophist, page234a:

     This is some form ofamusement you're talking about.

2. (countable) An activity that isentertaining oramusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:hobby

   • 1813, Jane Austen,Pride and Prejudice:

     "What a charmingamusement 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."

   • 1843, Edgar Allan Poe,The Gold-Bug:

     His chiefamusements 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.

   • 1919, L. Frank Baum,The Magic of Oz:

     The Cat was sour-tempered and grumpy, at first, but before they had journeyed far, the crystal creature had discovered a fineamusement. The long tails of the monkeys were constantly sticking through the bars of their cage, and when they did, the Glass Cat would slyly seize the tails in her paws and pull them.

Borrowed fromFrenchamusement.

• IPA^(key):/ˌaː.my.zəˈmɛnt/

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• Hyphenation:amu‧se‧ment
• Rhymes:-ɛnt

amusement n (uncountable)

1. entertainment,amusement

• amusant
• amuseren

Fromamuser(“to amuse”) +‎-ment.

• IPA^(key):/a.myz.mɑ̃/

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amusement m (pluralamusements)

1. amusement

• → English:amusement
• → German:Amüsement

• “amusement”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.