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Drama

Definition: Drama

Drama

Noun

1. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway".

2. An episode that is turbulent or highly emotional.

3. The literary genre of works intended for the theater.

4. The quality of being arresting or highly emotional.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drama" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Etymology: Drama \Dra"ma\, noun. [Latin expression drama, Greek, from to do, act; compare to Lith. daryti.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Drama

DomainDefinition

Dream Interpretation

To see a drama, signifies pleasant reunions with distant friends.
To be bored with the performance of a drama, you will be forced to accept an uncongenial companion at some entertainment or secret affair.
To write one, portends that you will be plunged into distress and debt, to be extricated as if by a miracle. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Drama Father of the French drama. Etienne Jodelle (1532-1573). Father of the Greek drama. Thespis (sixth century B.C.) Father of the Spanish drama. Lopë de Vega (1562-1635). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Drama

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Drama is a prose or verse composition telling a story which shows life or character through conflict and emotions. It is usually performed by actors and actresses in a theatrical setting.

See also:

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Drama, Greece

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Drama is a town in Northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the Prefecture of Drama. The Drama Prefecture is part of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. It is the trade center for a tobacco-producing region.

Drama hosts an annual short film festival.

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English drama

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The earliest known plays in the English language are the medieval mystery plays and morality plays, which dealt with Christian themes, especially the life and death of Jesus Christ, and were performed at religious festivals.

There are two candidates for the earliest comedy in English: Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall, and Gammer Gurton's Needle, by an unidentified author.

English drama reached its height during the English Renaissance, during the reign of Elizabeth I. This period includes not only the justifiably famous William Shakespeare, but also Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and John Webster. Some have hypothesized that the English Renaissance paved the way for the sudden dominance of drama in English society, arguing that the questioning mode popular during this time was best served by the competing characters in the plays of the Elizabethan dramatists.

Various types of plays were popular at this time. Ben Jonson, for example, was often engaged to write masques, ornate plays where the actors wore, yes, masks. The three types that seem most often studied today are the histories, the comedies, and the tragedies. Shakespeare is remarkable in that he produced all three types, whereas other playwrights tended to specialise in one or another.

After the English Civil War, play-acting, especially comedy, was regarded as sinful, and all theatres were closed for some years. Restoration comedy, which became popular during the reign of King Charles II was a genre in its own right.

The different types of drama continued up until the 19th and 20th centuries, when some merging of the differences occurred, so that it was no longer essential for a play to have either a happy or a sad ending.

See also English literature.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "English drama."

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

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Theater

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Theater (also Theatre in British and Commonwealth English) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle - indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. In addition to the standard narrative dialog style, theatre takes such forms as opera, ballet, mime, kabuki, chinese opera, and pantomime. Here is a list of acting terms.

Kinds of theater

"Drama" is that branch of theatre in which speech, either from written text (plays or "dramatic literature") or improvised, is paramount. "Musical theater" is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance routines, and spoken dialogue. There is a particularly long tradition of political theater, intended to educate audiences on contemporary issues and encourage social change. Various creeds, Catholicism for instance, have built upon the entertainment value of theatre and created (for example) mystery plays and morality plays.

There is an enormous variety of philosophies, artistic processes, and theatrical approaches to creating plays and drama. Some are connected to political or spiritual ideologies, and some are based on purely "artistic" concerns. Some processes focus on story, some on the theatre as event, some as theatre as a catalyst for social change. According to Aristotle's seminal theatrical critique Poetics, there are six elements necessary for theatre. They are Plot, Character, Idea, Language, Music, and Spectacle. The 17th-century Spanish writer Lope de Vega wrote that for theatre one needs "three boards, two actors, and one passion." Others notable for their contributtion to theatrical philosophy are Konstantin Stanislavski, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Orson Welles, Jerzy Grotowski.

20th Century American Playwrights

20th Century British Playwrights

20th Century German Language Playwrights

20th Century Irish Playwrights

See also: Irish theatre

Other 20th Century English-language playwrights

This gives a brief listing of some of the better-known playwrights; but theatre is a highly collaborative, multi-person, multi-media craft. Plays are usually produced by a production team*artistic staff combined with various technical, support, and design staff. Among these are the director, scenic designer, the lighting designer, the costume designer, the dramaturge, and the stage manager and production manager. This is not an all inclusive list, and may include other personnel from the world of technical theatre.

20th Century English Language Theatre Directors

20th Century Russian and French Theatre Directors

20th Century Polish Theatre Director

20th Century German Language Theatre Directors

Awards

See also*Repertory theatre, dramatist, list of dramatists, history of theatre, improvisational theatre, radio and television drama, summer stock, cinematic drama, suspension of disbelief

Theater building

A theatre is also the building in which works and plays are performed. There are as many styles of performance space as there are styles of performance, but most theatres include a designated "stage" or playing space, a designated audience area or "house," and some sort of off-stage area for preparation and storage, called "backstage," which is typically concealed from the audience. Theatres range from ornate, cathedral-like structures to simple undecorated rooms or black box theatres.

Some of these buildings are masterpieces of architecture. Others, often those known for opera, have become major cultural references and symbols.

The original Greek theatre was semicircular in form and was normally built on a hillside, often overlooking the sea. These theatres also typically included a "raked" or sloped stage, with the back of the stage being higher than the front. Such theatres were often constructed with excellent acoustics, so that a player standing centre stage could be clearly heard throughout the auditorium. The Romanss copied this style of building, but tended not to be so concerned about the location, being prepared to build walls and terraces instead of looking for a naturally-occurring site.

During the Elizabethan era in England, theatres were constructed of wood and were circular in form, like the Globe Theatre in London, home to William Shakespeare's troupe of actors. The Globe has now been rebuilt as a fully working and producing theatre near its original site (largely thanks to the efforts of film director Sam Wanamaker) to give modern audiences an idea of the environment for which Shakespeare and other playwrights of the period were writing.

Contemporary theatres are often non-traditional, such as very adaptable spaces, or theatres where audience and performers are not separated. A major example of this is the modular theatre, (see for example the Walt Disney Modular Theatre). This large theatre has floors and walls divided into small movable sections, with the floor sections on adjustable hydraulic pylons, so that the space may be adjusted into any configuration for each individual play. As new styles of theatre performance have evolved, so has the desire to improve or recreate performance venues. This applies equally to artistic and presentation techniques, such as stage lighting.

Specific designs of contemporary live theaters include proscenium, thrust, black box theater, theater in the round, amphitheater, and arena. A special kind of theater is one in a train carriage (picture). See also movie theater and puppet theater.

See also: Stagecraft,Technical theater, Theater Techniques, Opera house, Home Theater, Irish theatre

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Theater."

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Synonyms: Drama

Synonyms: dramatic event (n), play (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Drama

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Representation

Personation, personification; impersonation; drama.

The Drama

Play, drama, stage play, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame; melodrama, melodrame; comidie larmoyante, sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue;duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy.

Noun: the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Drama

English words defined with "drama": acting, Alexander Woollcott, antistrophe, appealing, Atellan ♦ black humor, black humour ♦ choral ode, closet drama, comedy, comedy ballet, conflict ♦ dialog, dialogue, Dionysus, dramatic, dramatic performance, dramatic production, Dramatical, dramaturgic, dramaturgical, Dress rehearsal ♦ extracurricular ♦ festival, fete ♦ galanty show ♦ incidental music, intermezzo ♦ King Oedipus ♦ Leading motive, likable, likeable, little theater, little theatre, lyric ♦ Monodrame ♦ Oedipus, Oedipus Rex, opera ♦ performing, play, play out, playacting, playing, Protasis, Puppet show ♦ Richard Wagner, Royal National Eisteddfod ♦ shadow play, shadow show, situation comedy, spectacular, staging, strophe, sympathetic ♦ theatrical production, thespian, To tread the stage, tragedy, Tragi-comedy, tragicomic ♦ unappealing, unlikable, unlikeable, unsympathetic ♦ Wagner, warhorse, Wilhelm Richard Wagner, Woollcott. (references)
Specialty definitions using "drama": Actresses, Agonistes, Ale-stake, All in the Wrong, Amlet, Arimanes ♦ Brother Sam ♦ Chevalier du Brouillard, Comus, creative arts, creative expression, creative subjects, Curse ♦ Demosthenes' Lantern, Drama of Exile ♦ expressive arts, expressive subjects ♦ film and the performing arts ♦ Genre Painter ♦ HISTORIAN, DRAMATIC ARTS ♦ Iron Mask ♦ Lever de Rideau ♦ Merchant of Venice ♦ OPERA ♦ performing arts, Philoctetes ♦ Robert Macaire ♦ Sa-kuntala, SALES REPRESENTATIVE, RADIO AND TELEVISION TIME, serial drama, Sosia. (references)
Etymologies containing "drama": thespian. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Drama" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (drama), Czech (drama), Danish (drama), Dutch (drama), German (disaster, drama), Indonesian (drama), Manx (drama), Papiamen (drama, pour out), Portuguese (drama, theater, theatre, tragedy), Serbo-Croatian (drama, play), Spanish (drama), Swedish (drama), Turkish (drama).

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Modern Usage: Drama

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I think this is all part of your little fantasy drama! Isn't this exactly how you imagined it (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Creatively, what aspect of radio drama most interests you (Remember WENN; writing credit: Erik Amdrup; Jonas Cornell)

Enjoy intense drama during the bre-battle briefing scene (Hardware Wars; writing credit: Ernie Fosselius)

I don't care if you think it's disrespectful, but I want you to cut the drama. It's killing Tony (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España)

Then we go to the drama behind the opening film footage (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

Lyrics

Tha same drama when things went wrong we blamed mama (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

More than a Stealth bomber, I cause drama (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

You got drama, nevermind that (Feels Good; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

My baby's drama mama, don't like me (Ms. Jackson; performing artist: Outkast)

All you suicide kings and you drama queens (Misery; performing artist: Soul Asylum)

Movie/TV Titles

Drama iz starinnoy zhizni (1972)

Mrs. Ryan's Drama Class (1969)

TV drama (1969)

O Drama dos Humildes Gutierritos (1964)

To Drama mia amartolis (1961)

Song Titles

No More Drama (performing artist: Mary J. Blige)

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Commercial Usage: Drama

DomainTitle

Books

  • Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (reference)

  • Earliest Relationship: Parents, Infants, and the Drama of Early Attachment (reference)

  • Euripides, 4 : Ion, Children of Heracles, the Madness of Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes (Penn Greek Drama Series) (reference)

  • Play of Herod: A 12th Century Music in Drama (reference)

  • The Golden Apples of Hesperides: Three New Plays in the Style of Greek Drama (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Muhammad Ali vs. Trevor Berbick - The Last Hurrah - Drama in Bahama (reference)

  • Creative Drama & Improvisation (reference)

  • In the Land of the War Canoes: A Drama of Kwakiutl Life (reference)

  • Daytona 500: Drama, Danger, Dedication (reference)

  • NHL Overtime - Heroes and Drama of the Stanley Cup Playoffs (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Drama

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Drama

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The last act of the drama of secession. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kirov Drama Theater (1939), Viatka, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Music and Drama Theater (1955), Petrazavodsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

In romantic Mexico (a silent drama). Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. Stalin revolutionizes the drama / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

George Kleine presents the Cines photo drama Quo Vadis Nero sings while Rome burns. Credit: Library of Congress.

The successful, romantic drama, A grip of steel. Credit: Library of Congress.

The shoemaker the comedy drama : a play full of tears and laughter. Credit: Library of Congress.

London life a new & original melo drama : by Martyn Field and Arthur Shirley. Credit: Library of Congress.

Goldi tribesmen acting out folk drama, "The repulse of the kidnapper". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Drama
 

"Tree Drama" by Lynn Cummings
Commentary: "Layers of trees in the still of winter... seeming to speak."		""Poor Rat" 1" by Tina Lorien
Commentary: "Tonight hanging my laundry - I got involved in a drama - as my cat was after this rat baby - now I am a hysteric afraid of rat - person . - but I grabbed my camera - & got as close as I dared - (which wasnt very close)....... In the end I almost felt sor"

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Drama".

PlayCaption
Dramatic sci-fi, mystery, drama movie style excerpt.
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Familiar Quotations: Drama

AuthorQuotation

Alex Dumas

A young girl must not be taken to the theatre, let us say it once for all. It is not only the drama which is immoral, but the place.

Friedrich Schlegel

Good drama must be drastic.

Minna Antrim

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Walter Lippmann

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Drama

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

At the stage of this mournful drama at which we have now arrived, Fantine has nothing left of what she had formerly been

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

It was a drama of many scenes and without an end.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Drama

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Few experiences match the drama of a convulsive seizure. (references)

Business

Apart from formal education, there are many other educational institutes in Korea including language, computer, fashion design, music, art, dancing, drama and movie institutes. (references)

Civil Liberties

Korea

The first instance was in response to a South Korean newspaper editorial; the second in reaction to a television drama about life in North Korea. (references)

Economic History

Turkey

As a result, the arts, literature, drama, and classical and contemporary music have flourished. (references)

Egypt

In April 1998, Egypt launched its own satellite known as NileSat 101. Seven specialized channels cover news, culture, sports, education, entertainment, health, and drama. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

CURSE, v.t. Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operation which in literature, particularly in the drama, is commonly fatal to the victim. Nevertheless, the liability to a cursing is a risk that cuts but a small figure in fixing the rates of life insurance.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Drama

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

I enjoy the drama of a toppled podium and the sound of microphone feedback as much as the next guy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Drama

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Bush

1989-1993Some see leadership as high drama, and the sound of trumpets calling, and sometimes it is that.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Drama

"Drama" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.03% of the time. "Drama" is used about 3,353 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)95.03%3,1872,965
Noun (proper)4.86%16324,498
Noun (common)0.12%4175,879
                    Total100.00%3,353N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Drama

Expressions using "drama": bloody drama ♦ closet drama ♦ domestic drama ♦ drama critic ♦ drama play ♦ drama school ♦ drama series ♦ drama student ♦ legitimate drama ♦ music drama ♦ musical drama ♦ serial drama ♦ tank drama ♦ The romantic drama. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "drama": drama-based, drama-documentaries, drama-documentary, drama-draining, drama-made-music, drama-maker, drama-school, Drama-through-movement.

Ending with "drama": docu-drama, music-drama.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drama

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

drama

2,137

greek drama

43

korean drama

607

drama lyrics

43

christian drama

240

drama in korean

42

drama mask

128

drama play

39

drama hotelier korean

125

radio drama

37

japanese drama

116

drama korean propose

37

pakistani drama

93

free christian drama

37

no more drama

79

drama face

35

korean tv drama

76

drama queen

34

drama school

73

drama book shop

33

tv drama

72

confession of a teenage drama queen

33

drama game

61

drama theater

33

all about eve korean drama

60

drama korean series

32

drama lesson plan

60

christian drama skits

32

drama fall tv

60

drama movie

30

drama outside park

56

drama for kid

30

drama script

49

korea drama

30

drama outdoor tecumseh

49

cristianos drama

30

texas musical drama

48

child drama

30

outdoor drama

45

drama camp

29
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Modern Translation: Drama

Language Translations for "drama"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

drama. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

dramë (play). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مسرحية (performance, play, show, spectacle), ‏حالة (case, circumstance, condition, conjuncture, estate, event, feather, fettle, incident, job, manner, nick, occurrence, phase, picture, place, plight, pose, position, posture, rate, shape, situation, state, status, trim, way, weather, whack), ‏دراما. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

драма (stage, the theater, the theatre). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

劇 (play, severe, show, to frighten, to intimidate, to scare, to threaten), 戏曲, 戲劇 (play, theater), 戲 (play, show, trick). (various references)

   

Czech

  

drama, divadelní hra, èinohra. (various references)

   

Danish

  

drama (play). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

toneelstuk (play, theatre play), drama (play). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

dramo. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

sorgarleikur, leikur. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نمایشنامه (Play), نمایش (Appearance, Display, Exhibition, Exposure, Histrionics, Ostentation, Parade, Performance, Play, Portrayal, Presentation, Representation, Show, Showing, Spectacle), تاتر (Playhouse), درام . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

näytelmä (play, show, spectacle), draama (play). (various references)

   

French

  

pièce de théâtre. (various references)

   

German

  

drama (disaster), schauspiel (pageant, play, spectacle). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δράμα (play). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

dramë. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חזיון (phenomenon, revelation, sight, spectacle, vision, visualization), דרמה. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dráma (legitimate drama, theater, theatre, tragedy), színdarab (costume piece, costume play, piece, play), színművészet (dramatic art, dramatics), színműirodalom, színmű, drámaírás. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

drama, lakon (story). (various references)

   

Irish

  

dráma. (various references)

   

Italian

  

dramma (dram, hokum, play). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

芝居 (play), 狂言 (make-believe, play). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎきょく (play), ドラマ , しばい (play), きょうげん (make-believe, play), いんぽん (lasciviousness, lewdness, playbook, printed book), げきどう (agitation, dramatic art, terrible shock, upheaval), げき (appeal, chance or opportunity, chink, circular, gap, interval, manifesto, play), えんぎ (acting, adaptation, amplification, commentary, expansion, omen, performance, play). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

연극. (various references)

   

Manx

  

drama. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

drama (pour out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amadray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

drama (theater, theatre, tragedy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

dramã (catastrophe, play, tragedy), teatru (acting, footlights, histrionics, house, locale, Playhouse, scene, seat, stage, theater, theatre). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

драма (dramatical piece). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

drama (play). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

drama (play). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

drama (play), skådespel (play, scene, show, sight, spectacle, theatre play). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

dulà. (various references)

   

Thai

  

บทละคร (role). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

drama, dram, tiyatro sanatı ile ilgili, tiyatro sanatı (histrionics), tiyatro eseri, sahne için yazılmış oyun, heyecanlı olaylar dizisi, heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

drama (r). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

драматургія (dramaturgy), драма. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nghệ thuật tuồng sự việc có tính kịch, kịch (dramatic). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

chwaraegerdd. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Drama

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

fabula, fabulam, fabulas, fabulis. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

drama. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Drama

Derivations

Words beginning with "drama": dramas, dramatic, dramatically, dramatics, dramatisation, dramatisations, dramatise, dramatised, dramatises, dramatising, dramatist, dramatists, dramatizable, dramatization, dramatizations, dramatize, dramatized, dramatizes, dramatizing, dramaturg, dramaturge, dramaturges, dramaturgic, dramaturgical, dramaturgically, dramaturgies, dramaturgs, dramaturgy. (additional references)

Words ending with "drama": docudrama, melodrama, monodrama, psychodrama. (additional references)

Words containing "drama": docudramas, melodramas, melodramatic, melodramatically, melodramatics, melodramatise, melodramatised, melodramatises, melodramatising, melodramatist, melodramatists, melodramatization, melodramatizations, melodramatize, melodramatized, melodramatizes, melodramatizing, monodramas, monodramatic, nondramatic, overdramatic, overdramatize, overdramatized, overdramatizes, overdramatizing, psychodramas, psychodramatic, undramatic, undramatically, undramatized. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Drama" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brama, Dama, Damia, Damna, d'amor, Darara, darka, darma, darmi, darpa, daruma, derasa, dhrama, diram, dirama, draa, draak, Draba, draca, draga, Draka, draman, Dramane, Dramat, drame, Dramm, drammen, drane, Drapa, Draza, dreema, drema, drim, drinan, Driza, Drolma, droma, drome, Dromi, druama, druma, duram, Durameau, Durava, Durmala, Dzaba, Idrija, trama. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Drama"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "drama" (pronounced drÄ"mu)
3-Ä" m ucomma, Gama, Lama, llama, mama, mamma, Momma, Pajama.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Drama

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: damar.

Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-r"

-1 letter: dram, maar.

-2 letters: ama, arm, dam, mad, mar, rad, ram.

-3 letters: aa, ad, am, ar, ma.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-m-r"
 

+1 letter: aramid, armada, damars, dammar, dharma, dramas, madras, maraud, mazard.

 

+2 letters: admiral, alarmed, aramids, armadas, armband, armload, barmaid, damager, dammars, daymare, dharmas, diagram, diorama, drachma, drayman, grandam, grandma, hadarim, jemadar, madeira, madrona, mallard, mansard, manward, marauds, matador, mazards, mazzard, monarda, roadmap, smaragd, yardarm, yardman.

 

+3 letters: admirals, adumbral, alarumed, alderman, armbands, armloads, barmaids, boardman, cardamom, cardamon, cardamum, chadarim, dairyman, damagers, daydream, daymares, decagram, dekagram, demerara, diagrams, dioramas, drachmae, drachmai, drachmas, dragoman, dramatic, faradism, farmhand, farmland, farmyard, grandame, grandams, granddam, grandmas, jemadars, landmark, madeiras, madrases, madrigal, madronas, mallards, mandarin, mandator, mandrake, mansards, manwards, marauded, marauder, maravedi, marinade, matadors, mazzards, misaward, monardas, mridanga, paradigm, radioman, rampaged, redamage, roadmaps, smaragde, smaragds, tamarind, tramroad, yardarms, zamindar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 		9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction 		13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Expressions 		17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Translations: Ancient
20. Derivations 		21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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