divertissements

noun

plural of divertissement
as in entertainments
someone or something that provides amusement or enjoyment for visitors seeking more cerebral divertissement, the city boasts a fine performing arts center

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  1. entertainments
  2. diversions
  3. recreations
  4. delights
Noun
  • Football—besides being one of our more ubiquitous and unrestrained national entertainments—has also become one of the rare arenas in American life where highly specialized language can flourish without censure.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Among the New Wave of American filmmakers in the mid-’70s, Spielberg and his friend George Lucas stood out as directors with ambitions to make old-fashioned popular entertainments.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
Definition of entertainments
Noun
  • Over a dozen flights were impacted on Thursday, including four flight diversions in the Czech Republic and two in Italy.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Several similar threats targeted planes earlier this week, prompting searches and diversions.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of diversions
Noun
  • Marino’s design featured long, red acrylic nails, recreations of Klum’s engagement and wedding rings, a tattoo of her husband Tom Kaulitz’s name and exposed fake tendons and ligaments with Klum’s face visible at the center.
    — Arushi Jacob, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • But even those recreations are cut in with actual archival footage, so they are connected.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of recreations
Noun
  • For a chef in Chicago, translating this world of Basque dining, with all its delights and idiosyncrasies, proves tricky.
    — John Kessler, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Gleick has a rich supply of oddities and delights from the telephone’s early history.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of delights
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“Divertissements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divertissements. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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