Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - comedy
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Comedy
comedy
(comedies) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Comedy consists of types of entertainment, such as plays and films, or particular scenes in them, that are intended to make people laugh. Actor Dom Deluise talks about his career in comedy. ...a TV comedy series. N-UNCOUNT 2. A comedy is a play, film, or television programme that is intended to make people laugh. ? tragedy N-COUNT 3. The comedy of a situation involves those aspects of it that make you laugh. Jackie sees the comedy in her millionaire husband’s thrifty habits. = humour N-UNCOUNT 4. see also situation comedy
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noun (plural -dies) Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin comoedia, from Latin, drama with a happy ending, from Greek komoidia, from komos revel + aeidein to sing — more at ode Date: 14th century 1. a. a medieval narrative that ends happily Dante's Divine Comedy b. a literary work written in a comic style or treating a comic theme 2. a. a drama of light and amusing character and typically with a happy ending b. the genre of dramatic literature dealing with the comic or with the serious in a light or satirical manner — compare tragedy 3. a ludicrous or farcical event or series of events a ~ of errors 4. a. the comic element the ~ of many life situations b. humorous entertainment nightclub ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 a a play, film, etc., of an amusing or satirical character, usu. with a happy ending. b the dramatic genre consisting of works of this kind (she excels in comedy) (cf. TRAGEDY). 2 an amusing or farcical incident or series of incidents in everyday life. 3 humour, esp. in a work of art etc. Phrases and idioms comedy of manners see MANNER. Derivatives comedic adj. Etymology: ME f. OF comedie f. L comoedia f. Gk komoidia f. komoidos comic poet f. komos revel ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. комедия musical comedy —- музыкальная комедия; мюзикл; оперетта comedy of cape (of cloak) and sword —- комедия "плаща и шпаги" comedy of manners —- комедия нравов comedy of character —- комедия характеров comedy of intrigue —- остросюжетная комедия положений comedy of situations —- комедия положений 2. представление комедии на сцене 3. забавное событие; комичный случай, комедия, смех 4. притворство to cut the comedy —- перестать ломать комедию ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 a play, film etc that is intended to entertain people and make them laugh (a comedy starring Eddie Murphy | Come to Comedy Night at the Albion!) 2 the quality in something such as a book or play that makes people laugh; humour1 (1) (Can't you see the comedy of the situation?) (- see also black comedy, situation comedy) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1385, from O.Fr. comedie, from L. comoedia, from Gk. komoidia "a comedy, amusing spectacle," from komodios "singer in the revels," from komos "revel, carousal" + oidos "singer, poet," from aeidein "to sing." The classical sense is similar to the modern one, but in the Middle Ages the word came to mean poems and stories generally (albeit ones with happy endings), and the earliest Eng. sense is "narrative poem" (cf. Dante's "Commedia"). Comedy aims at entertaining by the fidelity with which it presents life as we know it; farce at raising laughter by the outrageous absurdity of the situation or characters exhibited; extravaganza at diverting by its fantastic nature; burlesque at tickling the fancy of the audience by caricaturing plays or actors with whose style it is familiar. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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