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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#m1)

2) A single funny film, play or show (a comedy). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#m2)

3) The funny side of something (the comedy of the situation). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#m3)

4) (literature) A play with a happy ending, as in Shakespeare's comedies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#x1)
- Stand-up comedy is one person telling jokes on stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#x2)
- The school play was a comedy about a lost goat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#x3)
- Shakespeare wrote comedies and tragedies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#x4)
- The trip was a comedy of errors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#x5)
- There's a lot of comedy in the book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#x6)
- "In tragedies they die, in comedies they marry one another." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/14/)
- [Memes and comedy can spark curiosity, but you need to know the real story to understand the joke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/13-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «comedy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.