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DRAMATISATION

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dramatisation mean? 

DRAMATISATION (noun)
  The noun DRAMATISATION has 2 senses:

1. conversion into dramatic formplay

2. a dramatic representationplay

  Familiarity information: DRAMATISATION used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DRAMATISATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Conversion into dramatic form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dramatisation; dramatization

Context example:

the play was a dramatization of a short story

Hypernyms ("dramatisation" is a kind of...):

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A dramatic representation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dramatisation; dramatization

Hypernyms ("dramatisation" is a kind of...):

representation (an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent)

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

guerrilla theater; street theater (dramatization of a social issue; enacted outside in a park or on the street)

puppetry (a stilted dramatic performance (as if by puppets))

Derivation:

dramatise (represent something in a dramatic manner)

dramatise (put into dramatic form)


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