Meaning of comedy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece
2. a light, amusing play with a happy ending
3. A ludicrous event or sequence of events: The candidate's campaign turned out to be a political comedy of errors.
4. a narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy)
5. The quality of being laughable or comical:comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, farcicality, funniness, humor, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludicrousness, ridiculousness, wit, wittiness, zaniness.
6. a dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone
7. a performer who tells jokes or acts in comedies. komediant مُمَثِّل كوميدي комик comediante komik der/die Komödiant(in) komiker κωμικόςcómico; comica koomik, komödiant هنرپیشه کمدی؛ کمدین koomikko comiqueקומיקאי हंसाने वाला komičar komikus pelawak gamanleikari comico 喜劇役者 희극 배우 komikas komiķis pelawak komisch acteurkomiker, gjøglerkomik كوميډين، مسخره، ټوكار (په يوه كمېډى لوبه كې cómico comic комик komik komik komičar komiker, komedienne นักแสดงตลก komedyen 喜劇演員 комедійний актор مذاحیہ فن کار...
8. the genre of such works
9. A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
10. entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance
    uncountable
11. A literary or cinematic work of a comic nature or that uses the themes or methods of comedy.
12. the art of composing comedy
    countable, uncountable
13. Popular entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.
14. a humorous event
    countable
15. The art of composing or performing comedy.
16. A humorous element of life or literature: the human comedy of political campaigns.
17. A humorous occurrence.
18. (Theatre) a dramatic or other work of light and amusing character

Equivalents

Examples

“A Midsummer Night's Dream is among Shakespeare's most famous comedies.”

“Why would you be watching comedy when there are kids starving right now?”

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