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Satire
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(satires) 1. Satire is the use of humour or exaggeration in order to show how foolish or wicked some people’s behaviour or ideas are. The commercial side of the Christmas season is an easy target for satire. N-UNCOUNT 2. A satire is a play, film, or novel in which humour or exaggeration is used to criticize something. ...a sharp satire on the American political process. N-COUNT: oft N on n
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noun Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin satura, satira, perhaps from (lanx) satura dish of mixed ingredients, from feminine of satur well-fed; akin to Latin satis enough — more at sad Date: 1501 1. a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn 2. trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly Synonyms: see wit ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 the use of ridicule, irony, sarcasm, etc., to expose folly or vice or to lampoon an individual. 2 a work or composition in prose or verse using satire. 3 this branch of literature. 4 a thing that brings ridicule upon something else. 5 Rom. Antiq. a poetic medley, esp. a poem ridiculing prevalent vices or follies. Etymology: F satire or L satira later form of satura medley ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. сатира biting satire —- острая сатира a master of political satire —- мастер политической сатиры a satire on smth., smb. —- сатира на что-л., на кого-л. a satire against follies —- сатира, направленная против безрассудных поступков ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 a way of talking or writing about something, for example politics and politicians, in which you deliberately make them seem funny so that people will see their faults (the characteristic use of satire in Jonson's work) 2 a play, book, story etc written in this way (a political satire) - satirical adj - satiric adj - satirically adv ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1509, "work intended to ridicule vice or folly," from L. satira "satire, poetic medly," from lanx satura "mixed dish," lit. "full dish," from fem. of satur "sated." Altered in L. by infl. of Gk. satyr, in mistaken notion that the form is related to the Gk. satyr drama. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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