'Vaudeville' definitions:
Definition of 'vaudeville'
(from WordNet)
noun
A variety show with songs and comic acts etc. [syn: vaudeville, music hall]
Definition of 'Vaudeville'
From: GCIDE
- Vaudeville \Vaude"ville\, n. [F., fr. Vau-de-vire, a village in Normandy, where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th century, composed such songs.] [Written also vaudevil.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs. [1913 Webster]
- The early vaudeville, which is the forerunner of the opera bouffe, was light, graceful, and piquant. --Johnson's Cyc. [1913 Webster]
- 3. a variety show when performed live in a theater (see above); as, to play in vaudeville; a vaudeville actor. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'vaudeville'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antimasque,
- audience success,
- ballet,
- bomb,
- broadcast drama,
- Broadway,
- burlesque,
- burlesque show,
- carnival,
- charade,
- circus,
- cliff hanger,
- closet drama,
- comedy drama,
- critical success,
- daytime serial,
- dialogue,
- documentary drama,
- drama,
- dramalogue,
- dramatic play,
- dramatic series,
- duodrama,
- duologue,
- entertainment industry,
- epic theater,
- experimental theater,
- extravaganza,
- failure,
- flop,
- gasser,
- giveaway,
- Grand Guignol,
- happening,
- hit,
- hit show,
- improvisational drama,
- legit,
- legitimate drama,
- legitimate stage,
- masque,
- melodrama,
- minstrel show,
- miracle,
- miracle play,
- monodrama,
- monologue,
- morality,
- morality play,
- music drama,
- musical revue,
- mystery,
- mystery play,
- off Broadway,
- off-off-Broadway,
- opera,
- pageant,
- panel show,
- pantomime,
- Passion play,
- pastoral,
- pastoral drama,
- piece,
- play,
- playland,
- playlet,
- problem play,
- psychodrama,
- quiz show,
- radio drama,
- repertory drama,
- review,
- revue,
- sensational play,
- serial,
- show,
- show biz,
- show business,
- sitcom,
- situation comedy,
- sketch,
- skit,
- soap,
- soap opera,
- sociodrama,
- spectacle,
- stage play,
- stage show,
- stage world,
- stagedom,
- stageland,
- stock,
- straight drama,
- strawhat,
- strawhat circuit,
- success,
- summer stock,
- suspense drama,
- tableau,
- tableau vivant,
- talk show,
- teleplay,
- television drama,
- television play,
- the boards,
- the footlights,
- the scenes,
- the stage,
- the theater,
- theater of cruelty,
- theater world,
- theatromania,
- theatrophobia,
- Tom show,
- total theater,
- variety,
- variety show,
- vaudeville show,
- vehicle,
- word-of-mouth success,
- work