Definitions

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  • verb education To combine education and entertainment.

Etymologies

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Back-formation from edutainment. In use in 1985.

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Examples

  • We were asked to "edutain" more than educate as it was the final fun of the conference.

    Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen 2009

  • Sesame Street, not only keeps the show fresh and exciting for new generations of kids, it has hosted countless celebrities doing their part to help 'edutain' kids that cross a wide variety of musical genres throughout the years from Destiny's Child, Stevie Wonder, Crystal Gayle and Sheryl Crow to legends such as Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Placido Domingo and Ray Charles.

    TransGriot 2009

  • The crucial difference is that Meredith uses clothes and generic dance-pop to destroy; the Bratz use it to uplift and edutain.

    My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

  • Were this introductory supplement an industrial slide reel designed to edutain new initiates into the brave, utopian world of electronic music, it might start with grainy, sepia-toned images of “The Early Years.”

    Disquiet » What’s That Buzz About, Anyhow? 2001

  • Rothchild, Bilderberg, English royalty etc. Neither Mainstream Media & nor Hollywood or the Publisher's Clan would be outsourced to such task simply because they are assigned to edutain the Untalentable Aristocrat Urban Parasites.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Mainstream Media & nor Hollywood or the Publisher's Clan would be outsourced to such task simply because they are assigned to edutain the Untalentable Aristocrat Urban Parasites.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Publisher's Clan would be outsourced to such task simply because they are assigned to edutain the Untalentable Aristocrat Urban Parasites Please accept my subscription and Friendship Come for Coffee and Cookies There is always Dubai here Best Wishes Obaid Karki תּוֹדָה רַבָּה עביד

    WN.com - Articles related to Turkey Asks Iran to Return to Negotiating Table 2010

  • Rothchild, Bilderberg, English royalty etc. Neither Mainstream Media & nor Hollywood or the Publisher's Clan would be outsourced to such task simply because they are assigned to edutain the Untalentable Aristocrat Urban Parasites.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Publisher's Clan would be outsourced to such task simply because they are assigned to edutain the Untalentable Aristocrat Urban Parasites Please accept my subscription and Friendship Come for Coffee and Cookies There is always Dubai here Best Wishes Obaid Karki תּוֹדָה רַבָּה עביד

    WN.com - Articles related to Iran's June inflation rate falls to 9.4% 2010

  • Mainstream Media & nor Hollywood or the Publisher's Clan would be outsourced to such task simply because they are assigned to edutain the Untalentable Aristocrat Urban Parasites.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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