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(a) What does drama, a word coming from the Greek, mean?

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noun

noun: drama; plural noun: dramas

1.

a play for theater, radio, or television.

"a gritty urban drama about growing up in Harlem"

Similar:

play

show

piece

theatrical work

spectacle

dramatization

screenplay

drama as a genre or style of literature.

"Renaissance drama"

2.

an exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances.

"a hostage drama"

Origin

early 16th century: via late Latin from Greek drama, from dran ‘do, act’.

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