comedy
/ˈkɑmədi/ noun B1- a choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece
- a light, amusing play with a happy ending · A Midsummer Night's Dream is among Shakespeare's most famous comedies.
- a narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy)
- a dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone
- the genre of such works
- entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance · Why would you be watching comedy when there are kids starving right now?
- the art of composing comedy
- a humorous event
Plural comedies
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It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy.
Yet there was certainly an element of comedy.
On the stage of that comedy he had assumed to play the one-night part of a butterfly of fashion and an idler of means and taste.
This was one of his parts in the popular comedy he was performing,—a make-up he had adopted and which suited him about as well as the masks worn on the classic stage by paternal actors, who seen from one side, were the image of geniality, and from the other showed lips drawn down in chronic ill-temper.
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