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  1. amusementsnoun

    Plural form of amusement.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of amusements in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of amusements in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of amusements in a Sentence

  1. Herodotus:

    Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are prepared to use it; when they do not require it they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would be unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiotcy, or be struck with paralysis.

  2. Johnson:

    One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.

  3. George Bernard Shaw:

    Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

  4. Honoré de Balzac:

    If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

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