Entertaiment has become a cultural concept with a remarkably broad and flexible definition: it may refer to an individual selecting from an ever-growing range of pre-recorded entertainment products; or a family sharing dinner and watching television; to a group at a banquet; to a theatre audience; to a world-wide broadcast or digital experience. Although often associated with amusement, it may also have a serious purpose—for example, in the context of ceremonies, celebrations, religious festivals, or satire. These examples have been selected programmatically from corpora and from sources on the web and do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors.