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say it: SIT-kahm
sitcom is a noun meaning "a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life
a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life
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 sitcom 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.