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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue. · Such a work for television, radio or the cinema, usually one that is not a comedy. · Theatrical plays in general. · A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play.
From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from δράω (dráō, “to act, to take action, to achieve”). Doublet of dorama.
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