TRAGEDY
\tɹˈad͡ʒədi], \tɹˈadʒədi], \t_ɹ_ˈa_dʒ_ə_d_i]\
Definitions of TRAGEDY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
By Princeton University
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drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.
By Oddity Software
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A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.
By Noah Webster.
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A drama of which the outcome is bad, often fatal, for the hero or heroine; any work of literature of a similar character; a melancholy or fatal event; that quality which causes grief or catastrophe to command deep sympathy and respect.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
