Usually means: Humor that provokes laughter, amusement.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word comedy:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. comedy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. comedy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comedy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. comedy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. comedy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Comedy, comedy: Wordnik
  7. comedy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. comedy: Wiktionary
  9. comedy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. comedy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. comedy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. comedy: Dictionary.com
  13. comedy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. comedy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Comedy (Black album), Comedy (anime), Comedy (disambiguation), Comedy (drama), Comedy (genre), Comedy (theater), Comedy, Comedy, The Comedy (album), The Comedy (film), The comedy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Comedy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. comedy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. comedy: Rhymezone
  19. comedy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. comedy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. comedy: Free Dictionary
  22. comedy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. comedy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comedy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comedy: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. comedy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. comedy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, historical) a choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece
noun:  (countable) a light, amusing play with a happy ending
noun:  (countable, Medieval Europe) a narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy)
noun:  (countable, drama) a dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone
noun:  (drama) the genre of such works
noun:  (uncountable) entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance
noun:  the art of composing comedy
noun:  (countable) a humorous event

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