[ˈkɒmɪdi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh
(e.g: a cabaret with music, dancing, and comedy)

- a play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity
(e.g: Shakespeare's comedies)


Phrases:
- comedy of errors

Origin:
late Middle English (as a genre of drama, also denoting a narrative poem with a happy ending, as in Dante's Divine Comedy): from Old French comedie, via Latin from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos ‘comic poet’, from kōmos ‘revel’ + aoidos ‘singer’