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comedy
1. A theatrical play aimed at hilarity (cheerful, gay, merry, joyous), and typically having a happy ending.
2. Etymology: from Latin comoedia, from Greek komoidia; literally, "revel-singing" and so, "comic drama"; from komos, "drunken revel" (lively and noisy) + -oidia, "singing".
2. Etymology: from Latin comoedia, from Greek komoidia; literally, "revel-singing" and so, "comic drama"; from komos, "drunken revel" (lively and noisy) + -oidia, "singing".
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