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{
"term": "comedy",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a play, film or TV show that is intended to be funny, usually with a happy ending; plays, films and TV shows of this type",
"sensetop": "comedy about somebody/something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **romantic comedy**"
},
{
"text": "a **black comedy** (= a play or film that deals with unpleasant or terrible things in a humorous way)"
},
{
"text": "a slapstick comedy"
},
{
"text": "He moved to Los Angeles to write comedy."
},
{
"text": "a comedy about an eccentric family",
"contextForm": "comedy about somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "She went on to star in a hit **comedy series**."
},
{
"text": "His TV **comedy shows** ran during the 70s and 80s."
},
{
"text": "a **comedy series/show**"
},
{
"text": "Does he play comedy?"
},
{
"text": "a popular romantic comedy"
},
{
"text": "They spent hours watching comedy on television."
}
],
"topics": ["Film and theatre", "TV, radio and news"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["high", "low", "film"],
"verb + comedy": ["do", "play"],
"comedy + noun": ["actor", "actress", "writer"],
"phrases": ["a comedy of errors", "a comedy of manners"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "professional entertainment with jokes, short acts, etc. that is intended to be funny",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The show combines theatre with the best of stand-up and sketch comedy."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a humorous aspect of something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her imaginative interpretation of the script brought out the comedy inherent in it."
},
{
"text": "He didn't appreciate the comedy of the situation."
},
{
"text": "The visual comedy of this scene is obvious."
}
],
"synonyms": "humour"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɒmədi/",
"audio": "co/comedy/comedy__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːmədi/",
"audio": "co/comedy/comedy__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (as a genre of drama, also denoting a narrative poem with a happy ending, as in Dante's Divine Comedy): from Old French comedie, via Latin from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos ‘comic poet’, from kōmos ‘revel’ + aoidos ‘singer’."
}