dramatisation

1. 1.

   conversion into dramatic form

   “the play was a dramatization of a short story”

   Synonymsdramatization

   Broaderwriting
2. 2.

   a dramatic representation

   Synonymsdramatization

   Broaderrepresentation

   Narrowerguerrilla theaterpuppetry

Other forms of dramatisation

plural

dramatisations·

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.

Questions about dramatisation

What does dramatisation mean?

dramatisation means "conversion into dramatic form". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dramatisation?

dramatisation has 6 syllables: dra-ma-ti-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for dramatisation?

Close synonyms include dramatization, dramatization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dramatisation a common word?

dramatisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.