comedy
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comedy/ˈkɒmədi/
▶noun (pl. comedies)
- 1 entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches intended to make an audience laugh.
■ a film, play, or programme intended to arouse laughter.
- 2 a play with a humorous or satirical tone, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity.
– derivatives
comedic /kəˈmiːdɪk, -ˈmɛ-/ adjective.
comedic /kəˈmiːdɪk, -ˈmɛ-/ adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. comedie, via L. from Gk kōmōidia, based on kōmos ‘revel’ + aoidos ‘singer’.
'comedy' also found in these Oxford entries:
cloud cuckoo land
- comedy of manners
- comic
- commedia dell'arte
- custard pie
- Dantean
- dramedy
- inferno
- knockabout
- low comedy
- Mrs Grundy
- musical comedy
- music hall
- off-kilter
- pantomime
- parabasis
- Pythonesque
- romcom
- screwball
- sitcom
- situation comedy
- skit
- slapstick
- soubrette
- spam
- stand-up
- tragicomedy
- urban
- variety
- vaudeville
- zarzuela
