Usually means: Deep, distressing event causing sorrow.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. tragedy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tragedy: Merriam-Webster
  3. tragedy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tragedy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tragedy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Tragedy, tragedy: Wordnik
  7. tragedy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tragedy: Wiktionary
  9. tragedy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tragedy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tragedy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tragedy: Dictionary.com
  13. tragedy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tragedy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tragedy (Bee Gees song), Tragedy (Celldweller), Tragedy (Hanoi Rocks song), Tragedy (Julia Holter album), Tragedy (KAT-TUN song), Tragedy (Thomas Wayne song), Tragedy (band), Tragedy (disambiguation), Tragedy (event), Tragedy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tragedy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tragedy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tragedy: Rhymezone
  19. tragedy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tragedy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Tragedy: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. tragedy: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Tragedy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. tragedy: FreeDictionary.org
  25. tragedy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. tragedy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. tragedy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. tragedy: Vocabulary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tragedy: Global Glossary
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  3. TRAGEDY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tragedy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tragedy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tragedy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
noun:  A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.

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