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tragedy

noun
/ˈtɹæd͡ʒɛdi/

Etymology

From the Middle English tragedie, from the Old French tragedie, from the Latin tragoedia, from the Ancient Greek τραγῳδία (tragōidía, “epic play, tragedy”), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”), possibly a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians, or according to Beekes possibly to a goat given as prize, though the etymology remains uncertain.

  1. derived from τραγῳδία
  2. derived from tragoedia
  3. derived from tragedie
  4. inherited from tragedie

Definitions

  1. A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise…

    A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.

  2. The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.

  3. A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.

    • We saw a farmhouse burning down in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And we rolled right past that tragedy 'till we turned into some road house lights.
    • […] last month's flooding in the Buffalo Creek Valley […]. The tragedy took more than one hundred lives[…]

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Derived

comedy and tragedy, comedy equals tragedy plus time, revenge tragedy, tragedy mask, tragedy of the commons

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tragedy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA