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English

Etymology

From Late Latin dr?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from ???? (drá?, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???m?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??m?/
• (Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /?d?æm?/
• Hyphenation: dra?ma
• Rhymes: -??m?

Noun

drama (usually uncountable, plural dramas or dramata)

1. A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue

2. Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)
3. Theatrical plays in general
4. A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play
5. (slang) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life or online events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; a situation made more complicated or worse than it should be; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:drama

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Arabic: ????????? (dr?m?)
  • Gulf Arabic: ??????? (dr?ma)
• ? Cebuano: drama
• ? Japanese: ??? (dorama)
• ? Korean: ??? (deurama)
• ? Malay: drama

Translations

Anagrams

• Madar, damar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?d?a.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d?a.ma/

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from ???? (drá?, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

Noun

drama m (plural drames)

1. drama (theatrical and media genre)
2. drama (theatrical plays in general)
3. drama (difficult situation)

Related terms

References

• “drama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ?????? (drakhm?, “a drachma”).

Noun

drama f (plural drames)

1. Obsolete spelling of dracma

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English drama, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from ???? (drá?, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: dra?ma

Noun

drama

1. a theatrical play; a skit
2. a radio drama
3. a soap opera, a TV show that is not a comedy.
4. an act; a display of behavior meant to deceive
5. (derogatory) a show; mere display or pomp with no substance

Verb

drama

1. to be emotional or sentimental
2. to put on an act

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:drama.

Czech

Etymology

From Latin drama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?drama]
• Hyphenation: dra?ma

Noun

drama n

1. drama (composition intended for actors)

Declension

Related terms

• dramatický m
• dramatik m
• dramatizovat
• dramaturg m
• dramaturgie f

Further reading

• drama in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• drama in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin dr?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dra?.ma?/
• Hyphenation: dra?ma
• Rhymes: -a?ma?

Noun

drama n (plural drama's, diminutive dramaatje n)

1. drama (theatrical work; anything involving play acting).
2. Something tragic, a tragedy.

Derived terms

• docudrama
• dramaserie
• dramaticus
• dramatiek
• dramatisch
• gezinsdrama

Related terms

• dramaturg

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: drama

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tra?ma/
• Rhymes: -a?ma

Noun

drama n (genitive singular drama, no plural)

1. drama

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch drama, from Late Latin dr?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?drama]
• Hyphenation: dra?ma

Noun

drama (first-person possessive dramaku, second-person possessive dramamu, third-person possessive dramanya)

1. drama:
   1. a composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
   2. theatrical plays in general.

      Synonyms: sandiwara, teater, tonil

2. (colloquial) tragedy, a disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.

   Synonym: tragedi

Affixed terms

Further reading

• “drama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d????am??/

Noun

drama m (genitive singular drama, nominative plural dramaí)

1. Cois Fharraige form of dráma

Declension

Mutation

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?dra?.ma/, [?d??ä?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?dra.ma/, [?d????m?]

Noun

dr?ma n (genitive dr?matis); third declension

1. drama, play

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Descendants

• ? Belarusian: ?????? (dráma)
• ? Catalan: drama
• ? Czech: drama
• ? Dutch: drama
  • ? Indonesian: drama
• ? English: drama
  • ? Arabic: ????????? (dr?m?)
    • Gulf Arabic: ??????? (dr?ma)
  • ? Cebuano: drama
  • ? Japanese: ??? (dorama)
  • ? Korean: ??? (deurama)
  • ? Malay: drama
• ? Finnish: draama
• ? French: drame
• ? German: Drama
• ? Hungarian: dráma
• ? Icelandic: drama
• ? Irish: dráma
• ? Macedonian: ????? (drama)
• ? Norwegian: drama
• ? Polish: dramat
• ? Portuguese: drama
• ? Romanian: dram?
• ? Russian: ?????? (dráma)
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ?????? / dr?ma
• ? Spanish: drama
• ? Swedish: drama
• ? Ukrainian: ?????? (dráma)
• ? Welsh: drama
• ? Yiddish: ??????? (drame) (through some Romance language)

References

• drama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• drama in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• drama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• drama in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• drama in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).

Noun

drama n (definite singular dramaet, indefinite plural drama or dramaer, definite plural dramaene)

1. a drama

Derived terms

• gisseldrama
• melodrama

Related terms

• dramatikk

References

• “drama” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (drâma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dr??m?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

drama n (definite singular dramaet, indefinite plural drama, definite plural dramaa)

1. (countable or uncountable) a drama

Inflection

Derived terms

• gisseldrama
• melodrama

Related terms

• dramatikk

References

• “drama” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

drama m (plural dramas)

1. drama (composition)
2. drama (theatrical play)
3. drama (dramatic situation)

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

drama m (genitive singular drama, plural dramaichean)

1. Alternative form of dràm

Noun

drama

1. genitive singular of dràm

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drâma/
• Hyphenation: dra?ma

Noun

dr?ma f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. drama

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin drama, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma). Cognate with English drama.

Noun

drama m (plural dramas)

1. drama (genre in art, film, theatre and literature or a work of said genre)
2. drama, tragedy, plight (quality of intense or high emotion or situation of enormous gravity that heightens such emotions)

   Synonym: tragedia

3. drama (theatre studies)

   Synonym: teatro

4. play (work of theatre)

   Synonym: obra

5. big deal, fuss, scene

   Synonyms: gran cosa, escándalo, escena

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• eurodrama m
• reina del drama (“drama queen”)

Related terms

• dramatizar

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

drama n

1. a drama

Declension

Related terms

• dramatiker
• dramatisk
• dramaturg
• dramaturgi

Anagrams

• ramad

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ?????? (dráma).

Noun

drama

1. drama (theatre)

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Welsh

Etymology

From Late Latin dr?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from ???? (drá?, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?drama/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?dra(?)ma/

Noun

drama f (plural dramâu)

1. drama, play

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• re-view (rare for noun, obsolete for verb)

Etymology

From Middle English revewe, reveue, from Old French reveüe, revue (Modern French: revue), feminine form of reveü, past participle of reveoir (French: revoir), from Latin revide?, from re- +vide? (“see, observe”) (English: video). Equivalent to re- +? view. Compare retrospect. Doublet of revue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???vju?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

review (plural reviews)

1. A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.

2. An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
   • 1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD (2013 reprint), ?ISBN, page 54.

     The more strongly people felt about their ideas, the more potent the demons seemed to them: Christians believed that traditional paganism, far from being the work of men, was an 'opium of the masses', pumped into the human race by the non-human demons; and one scholar even ascribed bad reviews of his book to demonic inspiration!

3. (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.

4. A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.

   Synonym: revue

5. A survey of the available items or material.

6. A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.

7. A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.

8. A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.

Derived terms

• board of review
• capsule review
• judicial review

Translations

Verb

review (third-person singular simple present reviews, present participle reviewing, simple past and past participle reviewed)

1. To survey; to look broadly over.

2. To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
3. To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
4. (transitive, US, Canada) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
5. (obsolete) To view or see again; to look back on.
   • 1610–11, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, act IV, scene iv, in The Works of Mr. William Shake?pear; in Eight Volumes, volume II (1709), page 954:

     Cam[illo]   What I do next, ?hall be next to tell the King // Of this E?cape, and whither they are bound: // Wherein my hope is, I ?hall ?o prevail, // To force him after: in who?e company // I ?hall review Sicilia; for who?e ?ight, // I have a Woman’s Longing.

6. (obsolete) To retrace; to go over again.
   • 1726, Alexander Pope (translator), Homer (author), Odyssey, book III, lines 127–128, in The Ody??ey of Homer, volume I (1760), page 113:

     Shall I the long, laborious ?cene review, // And open all the wounds of Greece anew?

Translations

See also

Related terms

• reviewer
• reviewability
• medireview
• rereview

See also

• retrospect
• revise (v.)

Anagrams

• viewer