drama

noun

ˈdrä-mə How to pronounce drama (audio)
Definition of dramanext
1
as in theater
the public performance of plays he has been interested in drama from the first time he ever saw a play

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2
as in play
a written work in which the story is told through speech and action that is intended to be acted out on stage wrote a police drama that really captured the speech of cops and criminals

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Recent Examples of drama But for sheer drama, no game among the 10 Final Fours in KC tops the most recent one. — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026 Teen drama veterans Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are executive producing under their Fake Empire banner, while Dani Gorin and Tom Ackerley are executive producing for LuckyChap. — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2026 Julianne Nicholson has joined Season 2 of the HBO detective drama, reprising her Emmy-winning role as Lori Ross, the mother of three children who lives in Easttown. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 9 July 2026 The drama is centered on Michel’s engagement to Irène Bergmann, a widow a few years older than he, who lives in the nearby town of Percy with her mother. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for drama
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drama
  1. theater
  2. play
  3. stage
  4. musical
  5. production
  6. dramatization
  7. entertainment
  8. comedy
Noun
  • Built from a clandestine audio recording Weist made during the interview, the work occupies a niche between documentary theater, performance art and procedural drama.
    — Rhoda Feng, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • The home, which the listing says was inspired by the tropical Indonesian island of Bali, features a movie theater, chef’s kitchen and custom dressing room.
    — Catherine Odom July 7, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026
Definition of theater
Noun
  • Folarin Balogun, the striker whose 11th-hour reinstatement Sunday by FIFA unleashed an international furor and much anti-Yankee sentiment abroad, created a free kick with a fine hold-up play.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
  • What begins as a history play transforms into a sharp-eyed satire about the cost of assimilation in a society where money, power and white privilege remain stubbornly intertwined.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of play
Noun
  • Last year the city approved Hackman Capital’s $1-billion plan to add 980,000 square feet of offices, sound stages, production facilities and retail space.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
  • Those results meant Norway had already qualified for the knockout stages, so rested 10 players as they were beaten 4-1 by France in their final group match.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 11 July 2026
Definition of stage
Noun
  • The beloved Disney musical follows mysterious nanny Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews), who arrives at the Banks family’s London home to care for siblings Jane (Karen Dotrice) and Michael (Matthew Garber).
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026
  • An underrated musical based on a book-length poem about scandalous behavior in early Hollywood is enough of a reason to check out the season-ending show at Playhouse on Park.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
Definition of musical
Noun
  • Other Stones records contain more classics and better production, but none holds together as well as a whole or comes as close to the sublime as this one.
    — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • Ireland was the most common partner territory, appearing in nearly half of all co-productions, alongside Canada, France and India.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 July 2026
Definition of production
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  • The excess of emotion often scans as winkingly facetious, a dramatization to demonstrate just how deeply a person loves books.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
  • Today, the public largely remembers Holmes through magazine covers, courtroom sketches, documentaries, and television dramatizations.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of dramatization
Noun
  • The debate over the development has played out amid a serious downturn in the region’s entertainment industry, with studios shifting film and television production to Georgia, New Mexico and other out-of-state locations.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
  • Bands perform as the peaceful crowd saunters, with the visual entertainment of beefy men cooking barbecue on giant grills.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
Definition of entertainment
Noun
  • The Breadwinner, a family comedy starring Nate Bargatze and Mandy Moore, is coming to digital streaming this week after the film failed to bring home the bread in theaters.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
  • The delightful and deceptively deep family mystery comedy stars Hugh Jackman as an English shepherd who is found dead.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2026
Definition of comedy

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“Drama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drama. Accessed 13 Jul. 2026.

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