COMEDY


Meaning of COMEDY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kɒmədi ]

( 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.

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2.

A comedy is a play, film, or television programme that is intended to make people laugh.

≠ tragedy

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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

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4.

see also situation comedy

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