comedy

«comedy» in Mova's school dictionary: Films, plays, shows or stories meant to make people laugh — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (comedy, uncountable; a comedy, comedies)

meaning for a pupil

1) Films, plays, shows or stories meant to make people laugh. tree →

2) A single funny film, play or show (a comedy). tree →

3) The funny side of something (the comedy of the situation). tree →

4) (literature) A play with a happy ending, as in Shakespeare's comedies. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons: comedy versus tragedy; Shakespeare's comedies end happily. In everyday life: comedy shows, stand-up comedy, romantic comedy (romcom). Phrases: a comedy of errors (a chain of silly mistakes), stand-up comedy.

examples

• We watched a comedy and laughed all night. tree →
• Stand-up comedy is one person telling jokes on stage. tree →
• The school play was a comedy about a lost goat. tree →
• Shakespeare wrote comedies and tragedies. tree →
• The trip was a comedy of errors. tree →
• There's a lot of comedy in the book. tree →
• "In tragedies they die, in comedies they marry one another." tree →

note

Plural: comedies. A comedian is the person who performs comedy. Adjective: comic, comical. In literature, comedy means a happy ending, not always jokes.

In the corpora

• The Greeks invented theatre, with comedies and tragedies performed in great open-air theatres by actors wearing masks.
• Memes and comedy can spark curiosity, but you need to know the real story to understand the joke.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «comedy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.