English noun: drama |
1. | drama (communication) a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage |
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| Samples | He wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway.
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| Synonyms | dramatic play, play |
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| Broader (hypernym) | dramatic composition, dramatic work |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Grand Guignol, miracle play, morality play, mystery play, Passion play, playlet, satyr play, theater of the absurd |
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| Part holonym | act, stage direction |
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| Domain category | drama |
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2. | drama (event) an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional |
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| Synonyms | dramatic event |
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| Broader (hypernym) | episode |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | night terror |
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3. | drama (communication) the literary genre of works intended for the theater |
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| Broader (hypernym) | genre, literary genre, writing style |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | closet drama, comedy, tragedy |
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| Domain category members | appealing, black humor, black humour, comic, drama, dramatic play, likable, likeable, play, sympathetic, tragic, tragicomic, unappealing, unlikable, unlikeable, unsympathetic, warhorse |
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4. | drama (attribute) the quality of being arresting or highly emotional |
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| Broader (hypernym) | emotionalism, emotionality |
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| Attribute | dramatic, undramatic |
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