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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tragedy/ˈtraʤədi/

▶noun (pl. tragedies)

1 an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress.

2 a serious play with an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.

– origin ME: from OFr. tragedie, via L. from Gk tragōidia, appar. from tragos ‘goat’ (the reason remains unexplained) + ōidē ‘song, ode’.

'tragedy' also found in these Oxford entries:

black - catastrophe - chorus - episode - hubris - irony - Lothario - monody - Romeo - tragic - tragicomedy

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A tragedy out of the blue
countable / noncountable: tragedy
Joe Barton's "tragedy of the first proportion"
the main cause of the tragedy, throwing her into
the tragedy of the commons as a food basket

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