drama
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
drama/ˈdrɑːmə/
▶noun
- 1 a play.
■ plays as a genre or literary style.
- 2 an exciting or emotional series of events.
– origin C16: via late L. from Gk drama, from dran ‘do, act’.
'drama' also found in these Oxford entries:
anti-hero
- buskin
- catastrophe
- catharsis
- choric
- chorus
- closet play
- costume drama
- deuteragonist
- dram
- drama queen
- dramatic
- dramatis personae
- dramaturge
- dramedy
- dumbshow
- essence
- expressionism
- fedora
- improvise
- kabuki
- kitchen-sink
- melodrama
- mime
- miniseries
- morality play
- music drama
- music theatre
- Noh
- protagonist
- rendering
- soap opera
- stichomythia
- straight
- street theatre
- teleplay
- Theatre of the Absurd
- thespian
- tritagonist
- undramatic
- unity
