DRAMATIC PLAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dramatic play mean? 

• DRAMATIC PLAY (noun)
  The noun DRAMATIC PLAY has 1 sense:

1. a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

  Familiarity information: DRAMATIC PLAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAMATIC PLAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

drama; dramatic play; play

Context example:

he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway

Hypernyms ("dramatic play" is a kind of...):

dramatic composition; dramatic work (a play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc.)

Meronyms (parts of "dramatic play"):

stage direction (an instruction written as part of the script of a play)

act (a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet)

Domain category:

drama (the literary genre of works intended for the theater)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dramatic play"):

Grand Guignol (a play of a macabre or horrific nature)

theater of the absurd (plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless)

playlet (a short play)

miracle play (a medieval play representing episodes from the life of a saint or martyr)

morality play (an allegorical play popular in the 15th and 16th centuries; characters personified virtues and vices)

mystery play (a medieval play representing episodes from the life of Christ)

Passion play (a play representing the Passion of Christ)

satyr play (an ancient Greek burlesque with a chorus of satyrs)