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# comic

«comic» in Mova's school dictionary: **a book or magazine that tells a story with pictures in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (comic, comics); adjective (comic — funny)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A comic is a book or magazine that tells a story with pictures in boxes and words in speech bubbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#m1)

2) Comic means funny, making people laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#m2)

3) A comic is also a person who tells jokes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#m3)

4) Comic can also describe something connected with comedy in the theatre, such as a comic mask. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a thing counted, bought, sold or read; comic books often have prices or pages; English: making a comic strip, speech bubbles; stories: superheroes, a comic moment; everyday life: reading comics at the library

### examples

- Leo has 24 comics. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#x1)
- A comic costs $3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#x2)
- She reads 2 comics every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#x3)
- He gave 5 comic books to his brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#x4)
- We made our own comic strip in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#x5)
- The words go in speech bubbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#x6)
- The clown did a comic dance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#x7)
- My favourite comic is about a dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#x8)
- THALIA, the muse of Comedy, carries in her right hand a shepherd's crook, and has a comic mask beside her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comic/#x9)

### note

Just the thing counted; the numbers around it carry the problem. Trap: «comic» and «comic book» are the same item, count them together. «Comical» also means funny.

### In the corpora

- [Many films are adaptations of books, comics or games, and people argue whether the book or the film is better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/11/)
- [Comics and graphic novels are real reading: you work out the story from the words and the pictures together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/16/)
- [Sam, of all people, lends him his best comic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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