{
    "term": "comedy",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a play, film or TV show that is intended to be funny, usually with a happy ending; plays, films and TV shows of this type",
            "sensetop": "comedy about somebody/something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **romantic comedy**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **black comedy** (= a play or film that deals with unpleasant or terrible things in a humorous way)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a slapstick comedy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He moved to Los Angeles to write comedy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a comedy about an eccentric family",
                    "contextForm": "comedy about somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She went on to star in a hit **comedy series**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His TV **comedy shows** ran during the 70s and 80s."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **comedy series/show**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Does he play comedy?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a popular romantic comedy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They spent hours watching comedy on television."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Film and theatre", "TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["high", "low", "film"],
                "verb + comedy": ["do", "play"],
                "comedy + noun": ["actor", "actress", "writer"],
                "phrases": ["a comedy of errors", "a comedy of manners"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "professional entertainment with jokes, short acts, etc. that is intended to be funny",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The show combines theatre with the best of stand-up and sketch comedy."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a humorous aspect of something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her imaginative interpretation of the script brought out the comedy inherent in it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He didn't appreciate the comedy of the situation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The visual comedy of this scene is obvious."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "humour"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒmədi/",
                "audio": "co/comedy/comedy__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːmədi/",
                "audio": "co/comedy/comedy__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (as a genre of drama, also denoting a narrative poem with a happy ending, as in Dante's Divine Comedy): from Old French comedie, via Latin from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos ‘comic poet’, from kōmos ‘revel’ + aoidos ‘singer’."
}