comedies

Variant of comedy

comedy definition

com·edy (käm′ə dē)

noun pl. comedies -·dies

  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
  3. a novel or any narrative having a comic theme, tone, etc.
  4. the comic element in a literary work, or in life
  5. an amusing or comic event or sequence of events

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

comedy Idioms

cut the comedy

Slang to stop joking

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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