comedies

Variant of comedy

noun pl. comedies

  1. Obsolete a drama or narrative with a happy ending or nontragic theme: Dante's Divine Comedy
    1. any of various types of play or film with a more or less humorous treatment of characters and situation and a happy ending
    2. such plays collectively
    3. the branch of drama having to do with such plays
    4. the writing, acting, or theoretical principles of this kind of drama
  2. a novel or any narrative having a comic theme, tone, etc.
  3. the comic element in a literary work, or in life
  4. an amusing or comic event or sequence of events

Origin: ME & OFr comedie < L comoedia < Gr kōmōidia < kōmos, revel, carousal + aeidein, to sing: see ode

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