com|e|dy

com|e|dy
com|e|dy «KOM uh dee», noun, plural -dies.
1. an amusing play or show having a happy ending: »

All comedies are ended by a marriage (Byron).

2. such plays or shows as a class; branch of drama concerned with such plays: »

Restoration dramatists preferred comedy to tragedy.

3. Figurative. an amusing happening; funny incident: »

Our picnic in the rain was a comedy of errors and mishaps.

4. a) the comic element of drama or literature, or of life in general: »

the human comedy.

b) a sublime subject treated objectively, regardless of comic or tragic overtones: »

Dante's Divine Comedy.

5. any literary work having a theme suited to comedy or using the methods of comedy.
╂[Latin cōmœdia < Greek kōmōidíā < kōmōidós actor or singer in a comic chorus < kômos merrymaking + aoidós singer < aeídein sing < aud human voice]

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