'Drama' definitions:
Definition of 'drama'
From: WordNet
noun
A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway" [syn: play, drama, dramatic play]
noun
An episode that is turbulent or highly emotional [syn: drama, dramatic event]
noun
The literary genre of works intended for the theater
noun
The quality of being arresting or highly emotional
Definition of 'Drama'
From: GCIDE
- Drama \Dra"ma\ (dr[aum]"m[.a] or dr[=a]"m[.a]; 277), n. [L. drama, Gr. dra^ma, fr. dra^n to do, act; cf. Lith. daryti.]
- 1. A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. [1913 Webster]
- A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. "The drama of war." --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. --Berkeley. [1913 Webster]
- The drama and contrivances of God's providence. --Sharp. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; inferior species are tragi-comedy, melodrama, operas, burlettas, and farces. [1913 Webster]
- The romantic drama, the kind of drama whose aim is to present a tale or history in scenes, and whose plays (like those of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others) are stories told in dialogue by actors on the stage. --J. A. Symonds. Dramatic
Synonyms of 'drama'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acting,
- alphabet,
- antimasque,
- art,
- audience success,
- ballet,
- blueprint,
- boards,
- bomb,
- broadcast drama,
- Broadway,
- burlesque,
- burlesque show,
- carnival,
- charactering,
- characterization,
- charade,
- chart,
- choreography,
- circus,
- cliff hanger,
- closet drama,
- comedy drama,
- conventional representation,
- critical success,
- dance notation,
- daytime serial,
- delineation,
- demonstration,
- depiction,
- depictment,
- diagram,
- dialogue,
- documentary drama,
- dramalogue,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic play,
- dramatic series,
- dramatics,
- dramaturgy,
- drawing,
- duodrama,
- duologue,
- entertainment industry,
- epic theater,
- exemplification,
- experimental theater,
- extravaganza,
- failure,
- figuration,
- flop,
- footlights,
- gasser,
- giveaway,
- Grand Guignol,
- happening,
- hieroglyphic,
- histrionics,
- hit,
- hit show,
- iconography,
- ideogram,
- illustration,
- imagery,
- imaging,
- improvisational drama,
- legit,
- legitimate drama,
- legitimate stage,
- letter,
- limning,
- logogram,
- logograph,
- map,
- masque,
- melodrama,
- minstrel show,
- miracle,
- miracle play,
- monodrama,
- monologue,
- morality,
- morality play,
- music drama,
- musical notation,
- musical revue,
- mystery,
- mystery play,
- notation,
- off Broadway,
- off-off-Broadway,
- opera,
- pageant,
- panel show,
- pantomime,
- Passion play,
- pastoral,
- pastoral drama,
- photoplay,
- pictogram,
- picturization,
- piece,
- plan,
- play,
- playland,
- playlet,
- portraiture,
- portrayal,
- prefigurement,
- presentment,
- printing,
- problem play,
- projection,
- psychodrama,
- quiz show,
- radio drama,
- realization,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- repertory drama,
- representation,
- review,
- revue,
- scenario,
- schema,
- score,
- script,
- sensational play,
- serial,
- show,
- show biz,
- show business,
- sitcom,
- situation comedy,
- sketch,
- skit,
- soap,
- soap opera,
- sociodrama,
- spectacle,
- stage play,
- stage show,
- stage world,
- stagecraft,
- stagedom,
- stageland,
- stock,
- straight drama,
- strawhat,
- strawhat circuit,
- success,
- summer stock,
- suspense drama,
- syllabary,
- symbol,
- tablature,
- tableau,
- tableau vivant,
- talk show,
- teleplay,
- television drama,
- television play,
- the boards,
- the footlights,
- the scenes,
- the stage,
- the theater,
- theater,
- theater of cruelty,
- theater world,
- theatre,
- theatricalism,
- theatrics,
- theatromania,
- theatrophobia,
- Tom show,
- total theater,
- variety,
- variety show,
- vaudeville,
- vaudeville show,
- vehicle,
- word-of-mouth success,
- work,
- writing