comedies
KAH-muh-deez/ˈkɑ.mə.diz/UKKOM-uh-deez/ˈkɒm.ə.diz/
- 1Plural of comedy.
Romantic comedies dominated the box office that summer.
She prefers light comedies to grim historical dramas.
Note
Only some meanings of comedy take a plural. The countable ones pluralize freely: Greek songs of revel, light plays with happy endings, medieval narrative poems like The Divine Comedy. Comedy as entertainment built from jokes and satire is uncountable, so you enjoy comedy, not comedies. The genre itself can go either way. The spelling follows the regular rule for a consonant plus y, which becomes -ies.
comedies is a form of comedy
comedy, noun: Entertainment that relies on jokes, satire, or humorous performance to amuse people. Full entry
- Forms
- comedycomedies plural
- Spelling
- comedy → comedies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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