comedy
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Noun (2)comedies
- light and humorous drama with a happy endingOpposite tragedyType of dramaKinds farce, slapstick, high comedy, seriocomedy, black comedy, situation comedy, dark comedy, commedia dell'arte, low comedy
- a comic incident or series of incidentsSynonyms: drolleryclowningfunninessType of fun, play
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Translations
Noun humorous play or film
- Spanish
- comedia
- French
- comédie
- German
- Komödie
- Italian
- commedia
- Portuguese
- comédia
- Turkish
- komedi
- Russian
- коме́дия komédija
- Arabic
- كُومِيدِيَا kūmīdiyā
- Chinese
- 喜剧 xǐjù
- Japanese
- コメディ komedi
26 more languages
- Dutch
- komedie
- Polish
- komedia
- Swedish
- komedi
- Greek
- κωμωδία komodía
- Korean
- 코미디 komidi
- Indonesian
- lawak
- Vietnamese
- hài kịch
- Hungarian
- komédia
- Portuguese (PT)
- comédia
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 喜劇 xǐjù
- Catalan
- comèdia
- Czech
- komedie
- Danish
- komedie
- Esperanto
- komedio
- Estonian
- komöödia
- Finnish
- komedia
- Georgian
- კომედია ḳomedia
- Hebrew
- קומדיה qomedia
- Icelandic
- gamanleikur
- Latvian
- komēdija
- Lithuanian
- komedija
- Norwegian
- komedie
- Romanian
- comedie
- Serbo-Croatian
- komedija
- Welsh
- comedi
- Yiddish
- קאָמעדיע komedye
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. comédie, L. comoedia, fr. Gr. …; … a jovial festivity with music and dancing, a festal procession, an ode sung at this procession (perh. akin to … village, E. home) + … to sing; for comedy was originally of a lyric character. See Home, and Ode.
A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; — opposed to tragedy.
With all the vivacity of comedy.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Are come to play a pleasant comedy.— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54