different between comedy vs baldrick

English

Alternative forms

• comedie (archaic, often affected as such for humorous effect)
• comœdie (obsolete)
• comœdy (archaic)

Etymology

First attested in 1374. From Old French comedie, from Latin c?moedia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (k?m?idía), from ????? (kômos, “revel, carousing”) + either ??? (?id?, “song”) or ?????? (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ????? (aeíd?, “I sing”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?m?di/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m?di/
• Hyphenation: com?e?dy

Noun

comedy (countable and uncountable, plural comedies)

1. (countable, historical) A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece.
2. (countable) A light, amusing play with a happy ending.
3. (countable, Medieval Europe) A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy).
4. (countable, drama) A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone.
5. (drama) The genre of such works.
6. (uncountable) Entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.

   Why would you be watching comedy when there are kids starving right now?

7. The art of composing comedy.
8. (countable) A humorous event.

Antonyms

• drama
• tragedy

Derived terms

Related terms

• comic
• ode

Translations

References

• comedy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• comedy at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Alternative forms

• baldric, baudric, baudrick, bawdrick

Noun

baldrick (plural baldricks)

1. A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.
   • 1400?, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, line 2485.:

     And the bright green belt on his body he bore, oblique, like a baldrick, bound at his side below his left shoulder, laced in a knot...

   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 238:

     That a woman conceiv'd me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks; but that I will have a rechate winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me.

   • 1800?, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady Of Shalott, part III, verse 2:

     And from his blazoned baldrick slung, a mighty silver bugle hung...

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