Comedy - English meaning

ˈkɒm.ə.di

Comedy – definitions in English dictionary

noun
Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.
Usage examples:
A cabaret with music, dancing, and comedy
Synonims:
Light entertainmentComic play/filmFarceSituation comedyBurlesquePantomimeSlapstickSatireVaudevilleComic operaSitcom
noun
A play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity.
Usage examples:
Shakespeare's comedies

noun
A movie, play, or book that is intentionally amusing either in its characters or its action
Usage examples:
[ c ] a lot of shakespeare’s plays are comedies., [ u ] when john forgot his lines in the middle of…

noun
A (type of) film, play, or book that is intentionally funny either in its characters or its action
Usage examples:
His latest movie is described as a "romantic comedy"., i prefer shakespeare's comedies to his trage…

noun
The humorous part of a situation
Usage examples:
The vicar's forgetting his lines in the middle of the speech provided some good comedy.

noun
A type of comedy in which the social behaviour of a particular group of people is made to appear silly
Usage examples:
The novel is both a tender memoir and a comedy of manners.

Comedy translation into English

Comedy: translate from English into Chinese

喜剧, 喜剧片

Comedy: translate from English into Dutch

Komedie, Blijspel, Komediespel

Comedy: translate from English into French

La comédie, Comédie

Comedy: translate from English into German

Komödie, Lustspiel

Comedy: translate from English into Hindi

कॉमेडी, कामेडी, प्रहसन, सुखांत नाटक, सुखांतकी, कामडी, हास्यप्रधान नाटक, स्वांग

Comedy: translate from English into Italian

Commedia, Elemento comico

Comedy: translate from English into Korean

코메디, 희극, 인생극

Comedy: translate from English into Russian

Комедия, Комичный случай, Забавное событие

Comedy: translate from English into Spanish

Comedia, Comicidad

Word origin

late Middle English (as a genre of drama, also denoting a narrative poem with a happy ending, as in Dante's Divine Comedy ): from Old French comedie, via Latin from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōi

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Comedy synonims

burlesque

bɜːˈlesk

noun
An absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody.
Usage examples:
A novel which is a burlesque of the literary life

verb
Parody or imitate in an absurd or comically exaggerated way.
Usage examples:
A mock-heroic farce that burlesques the affectations of restoration heroic drama

noun
A type of writing or acting that tries to make something serious seem stupid and funny
Usage examples:
The dance scene is in part a burlesque of bollywood films., the political burlesques are not very h…

Burlesque - all meanings in English

farce

fɑːs

noun
A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
Usage examples:
He toured the backwoods in second-rate farces

noun
A humorous play in which the characters become involved in unlikely situations, or the humor in this type of play
Usage examples:
The meeting turned out to be a farce since no one had prepared anything.

noun
A humorous play or film where the characters become involved in unlikely situations

Farce - all meanings in English

pantomime

noun
A theatrical entertainment, mainly for children, which involves music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy and is based on a fairy tale or nursery story, usually produced around christmas.
Usage examples:
A pantomime villain

verb
Express or represent by exaggerated mime.
Usage examples:
They pantomimed picking up dropped food

noun
The art or act of expressing thoughts and emotions with movement rather than speech; mime

Pantomime - all meanings in English

satire

noun
The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Usage examples:
The crude satire seems to be directed at the fashionable protest singers of the time

noun
A humorous way of criticizing people or ideas to show that they have faults or are wrong, or a piece of writing or a play that uses this style
Usage examples:
[ c ] the play is a satire on corporate culture., satirical humor, garry trudeau would satirize him…

Satire - all meanings in English

sitcom

noun
A situation comedy.
Usage examples:
Certainly when carla started out writing in the sixties, there were very few women writing comedy o…

noun
A television series in which the same characters are involved in amusing situations in each show

Sitcom - all meanings in English

slapstick

noun
Comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events.
Usage examples:
Slapstick humour

Slapstick - all meanings in English

vaudeville

noun
A type of entertainment popular chiefly in the us in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of speciality acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance.
Usage examples:
His comedic roots are in vaudeville

noun
A type of theatre entertainment in the 1800s and early 1900s that included music, dancing, and jokes

Vaudeville - all meanings in English

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