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# vaudeville

«vaudeville» in Mova's school dictionary: **a light stage show with songs, jokes and short acts…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (vaudeville)

### meaning for a pupil

A vaudeville is a light stage show with songs, jokes and short acts, popular long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaudeville/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales and plays, a vaudeville is a show with new songs and funny characters

### examples

- The theatre put on a vaudeville with funny songs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaudeville/#x1)
- We saw a short vaudeville about a thief. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaudeville/#x2)
- The vaudeville had dancing and jokes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaudeville/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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