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say it: DRAH-muh
drama is a noun meaning "a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
“he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway”
drama
an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
the literary genre of works intended for the theater
the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for drama come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.