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# comedy

noun (comedy, uncountable; a comedy, comedies)

«comedy» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Films, plays, shows or stories meant to make people laugh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#m1)
2. A single funny film, play or show (a comedy). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#m2)
3. The funny side of something (the comedy of the situation). [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/#m4)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «comedy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedy/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«comedy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/comedy.html) on Mova free.