| 单词 | family entertainment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfamily entertainment a. Designed for use by a family; suitable for all the members of a family (with the implication that it is wholesome or inoffensive), as family magazine, family entertainment, family viewing, family newspaper, etc. When modifying a noun denoting a business, as family restaurant, sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense B. 4. Cf. family hotel n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > modesty or decency > [adjective] > inoffensive to decency moralc1390 unlascivious1592 chaste1621 modest1638 family1695 clean1867 society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > modesty or decency > [adjective] > inoffensive to decency > suitable for all the family family1695 1695 W. Salmon (title) The family-dictionary; or, houshold companion. 1741 (title) The family magazine. 1782 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1883) V. 650 Heres your nice Family Amusement for Winter Evenings! 1807 (title) The family Shakespeare. 1859 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. E. Robert-Houdin Mem. I. viii. 154 The family tickets gave admission to four persons at half price. 1960 J. B. Priestley Lit. & Western Man vii. 76 A Restoration comedy.., without the impudent indecencies, and so entirely suitable for family entertainment. 1992 Nova Scotia Trav. Guide 281/1 Family restaurant. Reasonable prices, full meals & children's menu. 2002 Diva Mar. 34/2 Unlike the sanitised versions made for family viewing on TV, the real Dickens is so strange, with a lot of violence, strangeness, queerness. 2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 22 Jan. a13/1 The ‘I’ stands for Illinois, and the ‘F’ and ‘B’ stand for words not fit for a family newspaper. < as lemmas |
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