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Answer for the clue "Provision of hospitality ", 13 letters:
entertainment

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Entertainment or Entertain may refer to: Entertain Magazine , 2007–10 British entertainment magazine Entertainment (2014 film) , a 2014 Bollywood film, also known as It's Entertainment Entertainment (2015 film) , a 2015 American film Entertainment (album) ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 a show put on for the enjoyment ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "provision for support of a retainer; manner of social behavior," now obsolete, along with other 16c. senses; from entertain + -ment . Meaning "the amusement of someone" is from 1610s; sense of "that which entertains" is from 1650s; that of "public ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entertainment \En`ter*tain"ment\, n. [Cf. OF. entretenement.] 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. --Baxter. The sincere ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a diversion that holds the attention [syn: amusement ]

Usage examples of entertainment.

Ramirez stood shoulder to shoulder with Andi facing the entertainment center.

It was about as much of a social gathering as Las Animas saw except at dances and school entertainments.

But there were definite advantages of Roman rule, which no Antiochene denied, although their comic actors and the slaves who sang at private entertainments mocked the Romans and invented accusations of injustice and extortion that were even more outrageous than the truth.

East towards Covent Garden, where the street entertainment was a little artier, and the average burger was anything but cheap.

The furniture mixed Stickley antiques and heavy rattan with an entertainment center that would make any audiophile or movie addict weep with envy.

Near the highest point, sheltered from the north by balsams, stands a house of entertainment, with a detached cottage, looking across the great valley to the Black Mountain range.

It was a curious sort of a feast, I reflected, in appearance indeed, an entertainment of the Barmecide stamp, for there was absolutely nothing to eat.

While bearbaiting was an amusing and lucrative entertainment, everyone knew it should take place in a bear pit and not by the side of the road with a nonpaying audience.

On Bhat II the entire entertainment network broke down when a vital communications relay satellite abruptly refused to distribute the signals it normally uplinked.

Both were acclaimed in equal measure for the promise of entertainment they offered, and the Boeotian smiled to hear the shouts but the Locrian remained as serious now as he had been among his own people.

When Mom goes out to buy school clothes for the kids, or when Dad buys an entertainment center, shopping is an expression of family.

A quick search with his eyes found her, sitting on a campstool by the cookshack and watching the scramble of men and animals in the branding arena as if it all had been staged just for her entertainment.

Familiar faces hove into view, some known personally, some known at the intimate remove of modern celebrityhood, local media types tanned and satisfied, a sprinkling of higher-magnitude stars down from the mountain in Aspen, the socialite grouper fish, the trolling politicos, and the renowned and endowed from the glamorous world of adult entertainment, all the well-connected folk you could ever hope to rig a hot wire to.

The Webers doubted that a deaf-blind woman could interest a vaudeville audience, which was rowdier and more intent on entertainment than the education-bent, sober folk who formed the Chautauqua constituency.

Dozens of people guaranteed slices of a huge loan to build an entertainment and leisure centre between Cheltenham and Tewkesbury, and it did get built, but the location and the design of it were all wrong and so no one would use it or buy it and the bank called in all the loans.